Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...this and other reasons, the board concluded that 1981, which was seen only a few months ago as a period of at least slow recovery from 1980's slump, will be another year of recession. Board members differed on the timing and severity of a 1981 decline, but agreed that a contraction is now all but unavoidable. Yet they believed that the 1981 slump will not be as sharp as this year's, when the GNP in the second quarter declined at an annual rate of 9.6%. Republican Conservative Monetarist Beryl Sprinkel, chief economist for Chicago...
...second quarter, before slipping back to 8% at year's end. The public, however, can expect little relief on prices next year. From a 1980 inflation rate of 13%, the board of economists projected that the increase in consumer prices will only slow to 11.4% at best...
Even if the plan is accepted by all the parties involved, the ultimate survival of Chrysler will depend on selling the slow-moving K-cars in a recession-battered market. Without an upturn in car sales, no special deal will be able to keep the nation's 17th largest out of bankruptcy court...
Most of his drawings are in the possession of the Rosenbach Foundation in Philadelphia; the few that come up for sale fetch prices of up to $12,000 each. For a man who describes himself as "a solitary and an agonizingly slow worker," Sendak has had an uncharacteristically gregarious year. He oversaw the printing of his new book, Outside Over There, to be published this spring, aided in the production of his off-Broadway musical Really Rosie, designed sets for the Houston Opera's version of The Magic Flute and is at work on the New York City Opera...
...famous Fate. His leading lady, Nastassia Kinski, a truly beautiful young woman (see last year's Stay As You Are), is further burdened by her attempt to speak with an authentic West Country accent. She does all right considering that she is German, but the effort seems to slow her speech. Or maybe she was directed to carry on portentously. Even her love scenes are handled with ludicrous discretion. One comes to imagine that she has been impregnated with her illegitimate child by Fate itself, since it is impossible to think that any human could get through...