Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Santos-Buch's season came to a crashing close when he stole second with nobody out in the third inning and Brandies leading 4-3. Somewhere between the start of his slide and second base, his hand got caught underneath his body and something had to give. What gave may cost Harvard the EIBL pennant...
...central bank made it clear that he was ready to risk a serious recession in order to get the price explosion under control. In October and then again last month, Volcker jacked up the cost of money. Consumers finally began putting off spending plans, and the economy started to slide. This economic downturn will certainly go into history books as the "Volcker Recession...
...every frame. The authoritarian director guides the work through monologues, dialogues with Hitler, the confessions of Himmler and Hitler, all of it set in the same small studio. The props reconstruct a dream world--often surrealistic--and the actors walk amidst the mannequins in front of slide projections of Hitler's Obersalzburg mansion, his party rallies, old photographs. There are four parts, 22 chapters, and significant hunks of the work deliberately bore, like a condescending challenge, 'Are you good enough to keep up with us?' In one such scene, an actor sets a picnic table in front of a slide...
James found the pattern repeated in recessions as well. In the slump of 1938, for example, box office receipts, which had recovered somewhat from their earlier lows, declined again. The last national economic slowdown, which occurred in 1974 and 1975, would probably have been matched by a similar slide in film attendance, James says, if it had not been for the huge success of Jaws, which distorted the figures for the industry...
...potentially inflationary deficit spending, which last year totaled 40% of the government's budget. The deficits were designed to lift domestic demand for Japanese products as the slowing world economy and increasing protectionist sentiments abroad began to cut into exports. In 1980 real growth is expected to slide from a current annual rate of 6.3% to 4.8%, and inflation to rise from 4.5% to at least...