Word: trough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stock prices have meandered near the bottom of their winter trough, Wall Street has for weeks yearned for a reason to cheer. Without the war, most investors see a resumption of unstrained economic growth, with lower taxes and interest rates, less wage and price inflation, a smaller federal deficit and diminishing pressure from the balance of payments deficit...
Britain's endemic deficits are usually largest in times of expansion, when Britons, fully employed and flush with cash, step up their purchases of goods from abroad. This time, however, Britain is in the trough of a government-imposed slowdown now 18 months old, a belt-tightening period of austerity imposed by Wilson's government after another sterling crisis...
...roared toward their house; the fire changed its course, and their bodies were found 100 yards from their untouched home. When the flames neared a touring circus, keepers freed the elephants so that they could escape to the bush. The elephants were more sensible: they went to a water trough and doused themselves, then returned to their vans. The bush caught fire, but the vans pulled out just in time...
Arctic Spillover. Whenever a trough hovered over the eastern Mediterranean in the vicinity of Cyprus during most of October, while another hung over the Atlantic off the coast of Spain (the position of the troughs this year), Israel's rainfall was from 20% to 55% below normal for the next three months. When the Mediterranean trough showed up near Italy during October and the corresponding Atlantic trough was located off the U.S. coast, Israeli winter rainfall was from 20% to 60% above normal. Krown also determined that in each of the three years of normal rainfall during the November...
...when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls of the Rockies and the Sierra, the warm, dry air heads southwestward toward the group of lower mountain ranges that stand between it and a low-pressure trough hovering over Southern California...