Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-goal showing against the Terriers broke a mini-scoring slump for the Crimson, which had been struggling offensively...
...Texas oil patch may still be in a horrible slump, but the mood in Houston last weekend was anything but downbeat. As fireworks exploded overhead, city officials opened the $175 million George R. Brown Convention Center, an ultramodern red, white and blue facility with enough floor space to cover 20 football fields. The hall, the eighth largest U.S. convention center, can accommodate up to 35,000 conventioneers. It is expected to help revitalize Houston's economy by pumping $300 million into local businesses every year and creating up to 10,000 jobs in the area. Already, 18 conventions, including...
...inevitability of business cycles means that a downturn of some sort is sure to occur within a few years. But economists generally believe any such slump would go no further than a difficult recession, rather than plunge into a full-blown depression. Reason: since the 1930s the U.S. has constructed a battery of economic and social safeguards. When the last crash struck, the U.S. lacked such backstops as bank-deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, food stamps, Social Security and Medicare. Says Economic Consultant Pierre Rinfret: "Could we have a crash a la 1929? The flat answer...
...package was prompted by the deepening malaise of Hungary's once vigorous economy. Main causes of the slump: sagging exports, stagnating manufacturing and high government spending, which has helped push the country's hard currency debt to $16 billion, the highest per capita in the East bloc. The government hopes the new tax system, coupled with an austerity program and new incentives for industry, will fix things...
...failed in less than two months. Cosby landed a few movie roles in such films as Uptown Saturday Night, California Suite and Hickey and Boggs (a rare and surprisingly effective dramatic performance). But his film career failed to ignite. Cosby refuses to characterize the time as a career slump but admits it was a "period when I was being ignored by some people...