Examples of slump

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Other female workers were not so well off; they had difficulties remaining employed because of economic slumps and had to be content with low wages.
With a slumping economy and an unpopular incumbent, an out-party may achieve success despite an inappropriate strategy.
As a consequence, more possibilities developed than society found useful, so the industry itself suddenly slumped.
Specific measures in 1978 allowed tax credits to be accumulated if capacity was reduced in industries like shipbuilding where world demand had slumped dramatically.
Internally, these beds are frequently slumped and display dish and pillar structures; at the top of each bed are current ripples.
Suddenly, she slumped forward, collapsed her upper body between her legs, and pressed her torso to the floor.
Certainly, he failed to respond immediately to the gravity of the situation, and his authority slumped accordingly.
As a result of controls and the land reforms which the government carried out, agricultural output slumped.
He returns to the chair, sits down, deep in thought, serious, sad, his head tilted forward, his shoulders slumped.
The slumping phase occurs over a sufficiently short time scale that the effects of mixing are likely to be of secondary importance.
Surficial sediment slumps have perhaps had more attention than other structures, not least because their orientations provide vital data on the directions of basin palaeoslopes.
In some places above and lateral to the sandstone channels, chaotic bedding with slide planes, slumps, and siltstone and mudstone clasts are observed.
The budget need not be balanced every year but should be balanced over the trade cycle, with surpluses in booms and deficits in slumps.
To put it more simply, all economies experience booms and slumps, many of which are quite drawn out or persistent.
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