Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wesley Snipes decides that he broke out of his slump when he "Just didn't care anymore." I don't claim or want to be that cynical, but Harvard does need to realize that to beat Princeton, it needs to do the same things it needs to do to beat Yale, Brown and every other team on the schedule...
...something that very few other people have: a large number of big hotels." His timing is pretty good too. Deluxe hotels are far cheaper to buy than to build, particularly in major cities such as New York and Chicago, which have added few big inns since an industry-wide slump ended in 1994. At the same time, the profits of hoteliers jumped 28% last year...
...where they were greeted by armed Palestinian soldiers. Violence earlier this year and the slowed peace negotiations have dampened tourism to the Holy Land this season. Shop owners who rely on Christmas holidays to sustain them through lean months are struggling. Israel's 43.3 billion tourism industry is in slump as well Hotel bookings are down 10-20 percent from last year and airlines are facing a similar drop. The tourism industry is hoping that potential tourists will once again flock to Israel once a successful resolution to the Hebron talks is reached...
...music industry is searching for a fresh new musical trend. The $12 billion business, which had been growing at a 10%-to-12% annual clip in recent years, has expanded only 2% so far in 1996, a development that falls somewhere between a worrisome lull and a full-blown slump...
...percent rise in the deficit since the second quarter seems alarming, TIME's Bernard Baumohl says the worst may be over. "The U.S. is still importing a lot of goods from overseas because the economy is still strong," Baumohl reports. "Japan and Europe are in an economic slump and are not purchasing a lot of exports." Baumohl says the trend is close to shifting. "The trade deficit is expected to turn around next year when Japan's and Europe's economies begin to rebound," Baumohl says. "Hopefully we're at the worst point in the cycle right now." American trade...