Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team also proved that they are indeed in a slump. Everyone had problems, including number one man Alex Vik who lost to Doug deBettencourt. On Monday, Vik bested deBettencourt in a dramatic finish, but yesterday the former Massachusetts Junior champ turned his game around to win medalist honors with...
Wall Street analysts generally believe Xerox is not in a slump but a lull caused by the natural constraints of being an industry leader and thus the target everybody shoots at. They expect the company's profits to be flat this year but to pick up in 1977 as the 9200 and other new products begin making a real contribution to earnings. In any case, Xerox is still looking ahead. Having done so much to create the mountain of paper that businessmen deal with daily, Xerox is now working toward helping them eliminate it, or so officials privately admit...
There especially will be no free lunch for the class of '76, which is graduating when the nation's economy has not fully recovered from its worst slump since the 1930s and many companies are still holding down hiring. According to the College Placement Council, a Bethlehem, Pa., research group, this year's graduates face possibly the worst job outlook ever. Employers are expected to make 5% fewer job offers to recipients of all kinds of degrees than they did even a year ago, when the recession was at its worst. Some other surveys point...
...Slumping Volume. Bailar's fears are well founded. Inflation has kicked up the service's operating costs at the same time that recession and rate increases have reduced mail volume for the first time since the Depression. Volume, which hit a peak of 90 billion pieces in 1974, dropped by 1% last year and is expected to slump to about 84 billion pieces over the next five years. Mailings will be held down in the future by, among other things, the expanding use of electronic funds transfers. The Social Security Administration is already crediting some payments to recipients...
...first, that seems like a rash statement, taking into account New Hampshire's record and thinking back to a Crimson victory over Brown and a tie with Cornell. But Brown has won 11 straight since a mid-season slump, and Lynah Rink is the last place the team wants to play in after its reception last month...