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Example sentences for: slump

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Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
A brief, overheated boom was followed by a slump that lingered for most of a decade.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the semiconductor business--seriously affected by the Asian crisis, a production glut and the advent of the $1,000 PC--is in a global slump, and that American manufacturers are certainly taking their share of the hits.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, more optimistic about the "pledge to mount a region-wide economic growth campaign and launch simultaneous stimulus measures across the Asia-Pacific to lift the region out of its slump," reprimanded U.S.
On one side, they have worried that unless something dramatic is done to increase demand Japan may go into a deflationary tailspin; that the expectation of falling prices will make consumers and businesses even less willing to spend, worsening the slump and driving prices down all the faster.