Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PHILADELPHIA--Greg Luzinski, battling a near-season-long slump, hammered a two-run homer that carried the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-1 victory over Houston in Tuesday night's opening game of the 1980 National League Championship series...
...guess I've broken out of my slump," she said yesterday. "Against Tufts I was really played right out of the game, but (coach) Bob (Scalise) moved me over to the left wing and the play against B.U. was a lot more even...
...flow of money and credit last winter, the Fed severely crimped the ability of the economy to expand. Interest rates leaped to record levels of 20% or more, and the nation pitched into recession. By spring, the sky-high cost of money was threatening to cause a severe slump; the Fed then switched course and began pumping money back into the economy. Since then the money supply has been on a roller coaster ride of weekly gyrations, with the nation's central bank struggling to smooth out and steady the growth of money...
...blatant politicking while in office has sown the seeds of paranoia, a tension of the type he claimed he would dispel. Who knows what U.S. foreign policy is exactly? Is the Georgia clan running the country? More conspiratorially, some have wondered if Carter deliberately induced the recession knowing the slump would tail off and conditions would be "improving" around election time. Perhaps that scheme seems ridiculous, but such is the psychological atmosphere--and it only represents relativistic politics taken to a logical extreme...
Japanese companies guarantee lifetime jobs, listen to workers' suggestions or complaints and share their good times and bad. During a slump, executives take large pay cuts along with the workers. Unlike Detroit, there are no huge bonuses that sometimes push executives' salaries close to $1 million a year...