Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think I've had trouble maintaining my concentration in some of my matches," Bougas said, adding that she now feels her mini-slump is over...
...Crimson team as a whole was cruising along in second place before it tripped over the 400 - and 3000-meter hurdles. "We simply didn't have the bodies; the injuries have hurt us all season," co-captain Susan Harper said, explaining the last-minute slump which dropped Harvard well behind the charging Tigers...
James found the pattern repeated in recessions as well. In the slump of 1938, for example, box office receipts, which had recovered somewhat from their earlier lows, declined again. The last national economic slowdown, which occurred in 1974 and 1975, would probably have been matched by a similar slide in film attendance, James says, if it had not been for the huge success of Jaws, which distorted the figures for the industry...
...MONTREAL vs. MINNESOTA: The North Stars are the NHL's most improved team, the Canadiens the team most likely to succeed (and succeed, and succeed...). Even when mired in the depths of their slump, the Habs still found enough to beat the surrogate Soviet national squad--i.e., the Red Army--when the descendents of Kornilov fell to the descendents of Cournoyer, 4-2, in a New Year's Eve game that meant something...
...slowing world economy have at long last begun to put a pinch in petroleum demand. Consumption in the non-Communist world is down by about 3% from 1979 levels, and in the U.S., oil consumption was by last week a full 10.3% lower than a year ago. This slump in demand has resulted in a softening of spot-market oil prices. Petroleum that was selling for $40 per bbl. in late December now goes for about $33. World oil stocks are now also very high, with supplies running about 1 million bbl. per day above world demand...