Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's men's baseball team broke out of an early-season hitting slump in dramatic fashion yesterday afternoon by pasting Cornell in a doubleheader at Soldier's Field...
Spain's current slump might explain an outburst of race tensions, which tends to explode when economic conditions sour. Unemployment in Spain, according to The Economist, is the highest in Europe. Yet industrial production hasn't fallen as much as in other countries, wage growth is among the best anywhere, and to my eyes most of the stores seemed to be doing brisk business. Most Spaniards, undoubtedly, aren't bigots. Something more than economic frustration, some cultural hiccup, drives the apparent dismissal of the horrors of racism...
...team-wrecking Billy Martin caricature. Moses Yellowhorse, the lunatic fireballer, haunts the ball park, and so does Eileen the Bullpen Queen, an annie so astonishingly trashy that the players remember her name. The novel flows with lovely nonsense, summer after summer, until it is necessary to give Barr a slump so that he can recover and win the Series one more time. Author Baker slumps here, just a bit, then finds his groove again...
Heading into the Ivy League Championships and the NCAA tournament in March, the last thing the squad needs now is a slump...
...virtually self- sufficient in the 1950s and 1960s has become increasingly dependent on exports for economic growth. Just in the years between 1986 and 1990, the number of Americans who produce goods for export jumped to 7.2 million from 5 million. Export-related jobs have grown throughout the economic slump, and they pay about $3,500 more a year than the average American job. If Kantor is successful in negotiating lower trade barriers, says Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat influential on trade issues, he "will create more new jobs in America than any other Cabinet member...