When slumping, he said, he puts pressure on himself, not always with the best results.

He eyed the Romulan ship again and tried to keep from slumping.

The most noteworthy improvement was in long-distance, which had been slumping badly a year ago.

But the company had struggled with high costs and slumping sales overseas, which led to several quarterly losses.

Keeping your arms straight, raise them as high as possible without slumping forwards.

Still, I want more time with you," he remarked, his posture slumping as it often did when she denied him something.

Martine pleaded as she pushed herself wearily from the wall she'd been slumping against.

The city's slumping construction industry will be buoyed by nearly $500 million in contracts for construction of new sports centers.

With the offense slumping on the Mets' debacle of a road trip, superb pitching had kept them in every game.

Weighed down with fatigue, his father sat, slumping into the couch with his eyes closed.

Prices are slumping and costs are rising.

A sudden numbness struck her and she dropped it, wa- vered, slumping back against the door- Both of them.

Some analysts said that much of the buying yesterday appeared to have been by large institutions' rushing in to acquire slumping blue-chip stocks.

The Reason Courtnall, who has been slumping, said the ejection "might have hurt" the Rangers.

They showed an appealingly lazy confidence, slumping through dance routines and showing off well-tended torsos.

It also cited price competition and an industry slowdown tied to slumping retail sales and a housing market weakened by higher interest rates.

These sediments were originally deposited on an ancient continental slope by submarine slumping and turbidity currents.

The Cardinals nearly squandered a 9-2 sixth-inning lead, hanging on for the 9-8 victory over slumping Los Angeles.

In October, the company postponed a long-planned $700 million deep mining project because of slumping copper prices and difficulties in lining up financing.

Wyeth stopped selling the sponge rather than move production or modify its plant, based on slumping sales and to avoid any further FDA issues.

Duke Slumping Second-seeded Duke doesn't appear as dominant as it did earlier this season.

Better than--" I let it go, slumping back against the blanket, and stared again at my arms and hands, lifting them against the sun.

Battered by slumping industrial investment, evaporating corporate profits, a banking crisis and a political scandal that has paralyzed Parliament, the market has been steadily sliding.

She no longer looked tired and wrinkled, and her tall frame was straight and slender instead of slumping and slightly too large for her clothes.

Sales of personal computers are slumping as the ardor of Japanese for the Internet cools and competition drives down PC prices.

His body was slumped on top of the two others.

He slumped against a wall for a moment, back in his own body.

The body slumped down to the ground at my feet.

The second was the body slumped on the floor behind the door.

Another young man is slumped over the table behind him.

A second later, his head slumped over on the table.

She hit the wall behind her, then slumped to the ground.

He was dead before his body slumped to the floor.

The man let go the hair and the body slumped to the street.

The man slumped to the ground and did not move.

And a couple of minutes later he was slumped over, dead!

Finally the man slumped to the floor, with no energy left.

He slumped a bit, still trying to remember her name.

My back hit the wall and I slumped to the floor.

As a result, the quality of political life has slumped.

The man slumped forward, dead before he hit the ground.

The boy still sat slumped down, his back against the wall.

He lost it once more and slumped on to me.

Finally I slumped down outside it for a while and went to bed myself.

I saw him close his eyes and slump a bit against the wall.

Then he slumped on his left side, turned blue and died within a matter of minutes.

Then there was nothing in those eyes at all, and the other man slumped to the side.

The child's head slumped to one side, he went still, and the life passed out of him.

He still played on it while the team slumped at the end of the season.

She ran to the slumped body, feeling for its heart.

I was working so hard to get out of my slump.

Another 5 percent said the slump would start in 1991.

They will be the first to go in a slump.

The slump is likely to go on for another two years.

But he said his slump has nothing to do with the talk.

With care, we can help people get through the current slump.

The company has recently come out of a slump in the industry.

Only a true slump is of any use in the test.

The rest of the day was a slump time for me.

His slump to the floor had been the great move.

He said what we have to do to get out of the slump.

It is not a good time to be in a slump, either.

Interest rates could play a role in a long slump, too.

The technology slump, however, has cut both ways for the museum.

It takes you six, eight weeks to work into a slump.

And this economy has been in a slump for over 10 years.

Men who hit all season were suddenly in a slump.

So why did the stock market slump 38 points for the week?

There is certainly no question of a slump or the economy going into free fall.

You look under every rock when you're in a slump.

But to get anything at all to start up in the middle of a slump like this is difficult.

The problem started in 1988 just before the big property slump.

When you are in a slump, it seems that nothing good can come your way.

The Japanese economy has been in a slump since the middle of 1985.

One is the slump in the world economy, something that was not expected when the year began.