Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only substantial weak spot remaining for semiconductor manufacturers is in sales of ROM (for read-only memory) chips, which are commonly used in video games. The chipmakers are stuck with huge inventories of ROMs because of the slump in games sales...
When times were relatively prosperous, most of the 50 million Filipinos tolerated martial law. But like many developing countries, the Philippines was hit hard by the worldwide economic slowdown and the prolonged slump in commodity prices. As the pie shrank, so did public tolerance for repression. Inexorably, the radical left, a negligible force when Marcos took power, gained strength...
Last summer, after the U.S. movie industry had begun its rebound from a 214-year slump to record the biggest box-office grosses in its history, the story was front-page news and real tinsel was flying from every flagpole in Bel Air. This summer the lines outside movie theaters are even longer, but nobody seems to be shouting. The industry appears so robust that its latest gains are almost unremarkable. According to Variety, ticket sales were up 10.5% for the month of July, and about 9% for the year so far, over comparable 1982 figures...
...launching of FORTUNE was proclaimed just one week before Black Thursday, the stock-market crash of 1929. (Its founder, Henry R. Luce, decided to go ahead anyway after learning from the experts that "this slump may last as long as one year.") Luce wanted a magazine of business that would go beyond "the stale Get-Rich Maxims of onetime errand boys." He knew that businessmen got as "kittenish as a Victorian subdeb" when caught in the public eye but was not prepared for how hesitant corporations were to open their doors. In those days, stockholders were entitled to little information...
...bases, and I couldn't get a hit if they was pitching me basketballs underhanded. And my kid hates me. To top it off, I got a bum leg that don't hurt." Manager Lou Tyler is solicitous, if gruff: "Now, about that slump of yours. You know, it wasn't but a few years ago that you blacks was allowed in this league. The way you been playing lately, they might kick...