Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Celtics basketball. The Celts are mired in their worst slump in four years, a level of dismalness that includes four losses in a row, five of six, and 10 of 17. The Celtics' latest debacle was 105-100 loss to Philadelphia two nights ago, and since they don't deserve a rest, Boston will face the Nets tonight in a sold-out Garden. The Celtics stand three games ahead of New Jersey...
...just when we think we cannot take another step, the guitar plays a final cadence, and the music stops. Dancers alternately cheer and slump to the floor, warriors spent by the victory in the fray...
...Councillor Saudra Graham, who chairs the council committee on housing, said it is imperative that CHA develop new sources of housing because a continued national economic slump would force "a rush of assistance to working class people, even with two people working in the family...
...rotating in goal with the one net-minder ranked higher in the ECAC last year. Cornell grad Brian Hayward. "At first I thought I was the number one goalie." O'Connor says, "but Winnipeg's been really high on Brian O'Connor adds that he's been in a slump since Christmas...
Despite its best efforts at morale building, the city is hurting. For years the nation's second-largest automobile assembly center, St. Louis was devastated by the slump that hit the car industry in 1979. Unemployment is at 11%. A General Motors plant in the city, which once manufactured everything from pickup trucks to Corvettes and provided jobs for 10,000, now employs only 1,400. Chrysler Corp. closed its truck plant in nearby Fenton, throwing 4,300 people onto the street. There are some signs, however, that St. Louis may have more to cheer about next year than...