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Palmer and Wareham only had a couple of races where they finished out of the top six, demonstrating consistency for most of the weekend. The duo started off the championship with a third-place finish but hit a slump early on, falling down to ninth place in the third race. They were able to bounce back, coming up with first place in the sixth race and two more consecutive ones in the eighth and ninth races. The team, however, could not keep momentum going into the final race, coming in eighth...
...this is Cohen’s sophomore slump, there are no limits to how much he can improve in his junior year...
...admitted to Harvard, keep on enjoying your senior year of high school but keep this in mind. All of us here were guilty of senior slump, some more than others, but we all managed to get on stage to receive our high school diploma...
...hook, and suddenly high school feels oh-so-passé. The Intel-winning genius in your physics class? He’s on the field playing Ultimate instead of taking a practice AP. Missing valedictorian? Better hope he/she will be back for graduation. Whether you call it senior slump, senior slide, or senioritis, it is highly contagious and supremely difficult to eradicate...
...Japan's two-decade economic slump is not helping. The collapse of the bubble economy after 1990 shrunk the size of Japanese firms and led to a restructuring that is still playing out today. The percentage of the workforce employed in part-time, temporary and contract work has tripled since 1990, forcing workaholic Japanese businessmen, many of whom never married, into a lonely early retirement. "Their world has evaporated under their feet," says Scott North, an Osaka University sociologist who studies Japanese work life. "The firm has been everything for these men. Their sense of manliness, their social position, their...