However, Kuwaiti caterers who have been expecting a summer slump in business are now looking forward to a boom, the paper said.

Mr. Dole and the movie capital are both in a summer slump.

Once the players knew that the team would exist this season, they were motivated mainly by making up for their summer slump.

The summer rental slump, while clearly tied to the region's deep economic problems, also reflects shifts in demographics and the preferences of young families.

These little sunflowers offer a bright spot at this time of year, when some gardens may be going through a summer slump.

Yet all too soon there follows the summer slump, when nothing much blooms except the gaudy annuals.

Investors dumped shares of disk-drive makers amid fears that a summer slump in computer sales would lead to price wars.

Housing starts bounced back in August after an early summer slump to the highest level in three and a half years.

Then came what looked suspiciously like a return of the summer slump.

Officially, Republican fund-raisers insist that the tide has turned after a summer slump.