Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practically anything: installing electricity in one's house in Rome, 21 different applications; exporting textiles, 200. One Rome resident reported that getting auto license plates took him four months, 71 phone calls, 18 documents, six tax stamps, and visits to 13 different offices. To fight the current building slump, Parliament authorized $2 billion in public works last fall. Virtually none of the money has been spent because it is so difficult to get approval of specific projects...
...billion tax trim involved taxes that were due to expire June 30 anyway (such as the tax on air tickets), businessmen cheered the cut's timing. It will not only help raise sales of some items at their seasonal bottom (TV sets, furs, phonographs), but also prevent a slump in peak-time sales of autos and air conditioners by making their cuts retroactive to May 15. Automen, anticipating sales of 250,000 more cars this year as a result of the cut, promised prompt excise refunds (direct from Detroit) on cars bought between now and July 1, and most...
...biggest car, the Ambassador, is actually shorter than many intermediates-has been the decline of the compact market. This trend has cut Rambler sales by 14%, Valiant sales by 29% and Chevy II and Falcon sales each by 39% below their 1964 levels. In an attempt to counteract the slump, American will add luxury features to the 1966 Classic and Ambassador, avoid advertising them as compacts. The 1966 compact American will be given a sporty, sloping rear deck, and emphasized as American's sole compact...
...pack (83% of that in taxes), Sweden will still rank below Denmark, where a 90% tax makes a pack of 20 cost 88?, the world's highest price for cigarettes. Swedish officials predict from experience that the boost will bring only a brief and shallow slump in sales...
...many bad things happened to the Dodgers last year. It's inconceivable that two starting pitchers can be lost again, that Tommy Davis will slump 70 points, that all the bright young rookies will...