Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Huskie who hasn't felt the scoring slump is junior All-America Dan Donigan. Heading into tomorrow's contest, Donigan is averaging one goal for every 3.5 shots...
Despite a mid-season scoring slump, the foursome has found more than enough opportunities to shoot--and score. In fact, the only time the Crimson attack has remained goalless was when Harvard battled to 0-0 tie at UConn in late September...
...things got scary along the way. A lot of things. An inconsistent line-up, a scoring slump, an injured backfield, and a sidelined captain all could have caused a Crimson down-fall. The moments were there: struggling at Columbia in the league opener in New York, deadlocked, 0-0, with lowly Boston College with only minutes to go in overtime, trailing Princeton, 3-0, midway through the second period...
...third biggest rise ever, and an additional 563.87 points on Saturday. Controlling the effects of the second-week crash posed a substantial challenge for the lame-duck government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who hands over power on Nov. 6 to his successor, Noboru Takeshita. Following Monday's precipitous slump, the Japanese Finance Ministry quietly pressured major trust funds and insurance companies to begin a stock-buying blitz. Most complied, says Economist Kinji Yajima, because "management knows well enough that to ignore such requests is to ask for lots of trouble...
...deregulated stock trading. The anniversary last week was a Big Bath. Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson complained that he did not know why London "should be following Wall Street quite so slavishly." Samuel Brittan, widely respected economic commentator for the Financial Times, ventured a prediction that the stock slump would clip half a point off Britain's 3.0% projected growth rate next year. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called for a healthy dose of budgetary realism in Washington, and Chancellor Lawson reminded tight-fisted central bankers in Bonn that it was a credit crunch that turned the 1929 Crash into...