Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like a once great slugger emerging from a long slump, George Bush finally pushed one over the bleachers last week. After 10 months of maneuvering to little effect on the recession, the Los Angeles riots and the Rio Earth Summit, Bush won from Boris Yeltsin a breakthrough arms-control deal and engineered the horseshoe-throwing, arm-around-Barbara scenes that remind people of his other up-close-and-personal diplomatic triumphs...
...Pirates are not the only team that is striking out financially. After years of booming ticket sales, record profits and lucrative television contracts, major league baseball has fallen into a slump. Stadium attendance is flat, payrolls are climbing, and revenues are on the decline. A growing number of clubs are crying broke. Several others, including the Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros, are being shopped around by cash-drained owners. Last week's sale of the money-losing Seattle Mariners to a group headed by Japan's Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of the video-gamemaker Nintendo, was the latest confirmation...
...These new roles for women are in accord with church law. But conservatives claim that the "feminization" of the church may be causing the slump in men entering the priesthood. TIME's poll also shows a gender gap in Mass attendance, with women outnumbering...
...analysts believe there is an even more compelling reason why the Japanese may finally open up their domestic markets to Detroit's products, which include an estimated $19 billion in American-made parts for use in Japanese-built vehicles. The Tokyo stock-market crash and Japan's ongoing economic slump have brought increasing financial problems to Japan's carmakers in their home market. Nissan is even expected to report a loss this year. It is no time to alienate the U.S. as a customer. Many trade experts see good news emerging from this turmoil: a recognition on both sides...
Harvard's confidence continues to mount as the squad holds tight to it's first place ranking in the Brine Coaches Poll. With convincing victories over Cornell and Old Dominion last weekend, it's certainly safe to say that the team's mid-season slump is over...