Treasury officials speak of their belief that a "brief, technical" recession in the British economy is now inevitable.
Due to a credit squeeze, the economy had gone into a brief recession in 1961.
In the report, the Administration forecasts a mild and brief recession that will end this summer.
For while stock prices fell in 1957, as the country endured a brief recession, the slide was not a deep one.
They expected a brief recession, a soft landing from the speculative boom of the Reagan years.
During the Bush administration, which featured a brief recession in 1990-91 followed by a slow recovery, 11 states lost jobs.
But most of the country continued to grow until a brief recession arrived in 1990.
And the brief 1990-91 recession did not stop the wave.
A brief but severe recession begins in the United States.
The economy did not appreciate being forced up-market; it went into a brief recession.