Word: slumping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Last year, sales from the week following Dec. 25 topped sales from Thanksgiving weekend, the season's traditional apex. And this time around, the discounting has already been set in motion by a season of relative slump. So bargains should be plentiful - along with bargain-hunters, for whom that ill-fitting plaid sweater is the perfect excuse to remedy Christmas gift oversights. Profit margins, however, will be slim...
...often cited, perhaps too reductive, summary of Jack Welch's philosophy: If you're not No. 1 or 2 in your field, get out. Welch is still No. 1--after a tech slump slapped down Cisco, his General Electric is again the world's largest company--but he's getting out anyway. Kind of. He tapped a successor, Jeffrey Immelt, but postponed his planned April retirement to oversee GE's acquisition of Honeywell. His memoirs, planned for spring, earned a $7.1 million advance, which he plans to donate to charity. Welch, 65, turned staid GE into a dynamic, even...
Blessed with a clean slate, the Crimson can now forget its recent slump, which proved not to be as fatal as was originally thought...
While the losses will not reflect on Harvard, the mere fact that the Crimson has played so many tough teams will work to its advantage. And even in the midst of the team's current losing streak--its longest slump since 1989--the Crimson still has been playing well. Both of Harvard's league losses, as well as its losses to Penn State and Hartford, came on the road...
...what had become an unshakable pattern in this up-and-down season, Harvard again came out of its slump against Ivy League teams--in this case tough losses at Yale and Brown--by throttling a non-league opponent...