Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordeal began with every parent's nightmare: small children, unguarded for a few moments, tumble into tragedy. Jessica's teenage parents Chip, 18, and Reba, 17, live in a blue-collar section of Midland (pop. 100,000), a drilling center hard hit by the oil slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged...
After netting eight goals against Brandeis three weeks ago, the offense went into a goal-a-game slump which was recently broken with three multiple-goal wins...
...didn't matter, as usual. The first-period plague hasn't stopped Harvard yet this season. Neither has a slew of injuries or an offensive slump. It looks like nothing short of a natural disaster will halt the crusading Crimson this year...
...first year, along with 3% lump-sum payments in both the second and third years. Far more important to the U.A.W. was the issue of job security. The Ford deal imposed a moratorium on plant closings and barred layoffs for any reason other than a severe sales slump. From GM, the U.A.W. apparently received similar assurances about future employment levels, but in an important concession, the union will allow GM to proceed with already announced plans to close 16 plants, idling 36,000 employees, or 10% of the company's blue-collar work force, by 1989. Even the U.A.W. must...
Singapore, which has been a leading oil refiner and supplier of drilling equipment, is still coming back from an economic slump that was exacerbated by last year's drop in petroleum prices. Nonetheless, the tiny island country did well enough to run up a $1 billion surplus with the U.S. in the first six months of the year. Singapore is strong in electronics and is trying to establish a biotechnology industry. It also aims to be a service center for Asia, specializing in banking, insurance and communications...