Word: troughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infusion of at least 50 million foreigners into the U.S. during the next century will be the reason the population will continue to expand even if the birthrate stays in its present trough. Although the birthrate has risen slightly in the 1980s, the increase has been caused chiefly by the large number of baby-boom women of childbearing age. Immigrant communities tend to grow faster than the U.S. population at large; Hispanics in the U.S., for example, should increase at a rate of 3% a year until the end of this century. Even allowing for that, the U.S. fertility rate...
...bull market has a father and protector, the honor can be claimed by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. When the Dow hit a trough of 776.92 in August 1982 and the economy seemed hopelessly trapped in a recession, Volcker and his colleagues at the Fed were convinced that interest rates had to come down. No sooner had they loosened monetary policy than investors came storming back into the market. And as interest rates kept falling, the bulls kept buying. By November 1983 the Dow had reached a high of 1287.20. For the next year, the index more or less stagnated...
Specifically, TIME's economists estimated that growth in the U.S. GNP will rise from a trough of 2% in the second quarter to 2.5% in the second half of this year. In 1987, however, they expect the rate of expansion to dip again to ( 2%. Western Europe is likely to have stronger growth: 3% this year and 3.5% in 1987. As usual, Asian nations are expected to be the top performers. Japan, for one, will come roaring out of its doldrums, boosting growth from 1.8% this year to 5.7% in 1987. South Korea's economy will surge a spectacular...
Also, by today, every suite is scheduled to have a new plastic trough screwed on the front door to receive Harvard Student Agencies advertisements, flyers, newspapers and other material that clutter up Kirkland's corridors...
...discovery showed researchers how they could dispense with prerecorded templates. Now they could program their computers to identify the shapes and patterns that Zue had recognized in the spectrograms. That immediately made the machines more versatile. Rather than trying to match every peak and trough in the wave forms of someone's voice, they could search for only those acoustic features that are universal in certain words, no matter who speaks them. Advanced word-recognition systems using this technique are already in the hands of the National Security Agency, the top-secret Government bureau that monitors global communications networks. Eavesdropping...