Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money dealers rushed to rid themselves of the currency. Ordinary folk joined the traders in bailing out, queuing up in front of street-corner exchange offices to offer bundles of rubles for dollars or deutsche marks. Shopkeepers shuttered their premises to mark up prices on par with the currency slump, and lines formed at gas stations as motorists tried to fill up their tanks before prices rose. By nightfall the ruble had lost 25% of its value -- the largest single-day decline since free-floating exchange rates were introduced...
After leading the team in scoring as a freshman. Silva broke out of an eight-game scoring slump to tally two goals against Yale last Sunday in a 4-1 Harvard win, reasserting his role as the team's leading scorer once again. Silva also comes in at third in the Ivy league in scoring, with three goals (for six points...
That task will certainly not be an easy one. But Harvard already went through an eight-game slump this season (only one win), and Silva did his best not to become mentally bogged-down...
...been in kind of a slump for the last couple of games and couldn't put the ball in the net," Silva said. "Coach told me today to come out and not think about scoring, just to play 90 minutes of solid offense and defense and let the goals come...
...work force), the company announced an $18 ^ million joint venture that will create 200 jobs when it begins producing facial tissue in Shanghai in 1995. At the same time, Boeing, which has dismissed 4,000 workers in Wichita over the past two years owing to a worldwide slump in aircraft sales, has begun shifting construction of some tail sections of the 737 aircraft to Xian. Warns Dale Moore, who represents the machinists at the Kansas plant: "Once we start making deals to give them work, the more they get, the more they'll want...