Word: spate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HAPPEN: THE U.S. ECONOMY'S 4.8% growth rate in last year's fourth quarter was too fast to last. Still, though a spate of reports showing a marked early-1993 slowdown was no surprise, it was no cause for joy either. January numbers showing the sharpest plunge in new-home sales in 11 years might be shrugged off, since winter housing figures are notoriously unreliable. Slow February sales by major retail chains are a pattern worsened this year by storms. Drops in January factory orders, the late-February selling pace of new cars and an increase in first-time claims...
...deal with the Yugoslav crisis has exposed its impotence in foreign policy. Its prosperity is undermined by global recession. Turmoil in the money markets has reinforced doubts about the E.C.'s ability to achieve a single currency and greater political union. In a climate of growing unemployment, a spate of factory closings is leading to bitter rivalry: France is seeking to stop Hoover Europe from moving 600 manufacturing jobs from Dijon to Glasgow. Glasgow is protesting Nestle's subsidiary Rowntree's plans to shut a chocolate factory, transferring operations outside Scotland. "European unity might be good for business," says customs...
...announcement of Rupp's appointment, which came Monday at a press conference with Rupp and search committee members, had to be separated from a spate of false rumors and hoaxes regarding the search process...
There's only one thing worse than business books: business novels. A new spate -- with titles like The Quadrant Solution and Flying Fox -- dispense the usual wooden phrasing and boring platitudes with, occasionally, a clunky hint of sex. Quadrant offers a numbing exchange about business expansion, interrupted by a long kiss. From the steamy dialogue in Fox: "Relax," she said. "Have another glass of water." Puh-leeze...
...shifted his positions on various domestic policies are true. He did use his middle-class tax cut proposal to capture votes successfully in last year's Democratic primaries. And despite his denial ("I don't know who led you to believe that"), Clinton promised in June to have a spate of economic reform bills "ready the day after I'm inaugurated...