He came to power in 1933, when the entire industrialized world was mired in the Great Depression, the worst economic slump in modern times.

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The challenges facing newspapers long predate the worst economic slump since the Great Depression.

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With our economy stuck in the worst jobs slump since the Great Depression, the pressing need is to build a regulatory climate that encourages investment, growth and job creation.

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Later, after the fragility of international finance had helped to turn a slump into the Great Depression, those hopes were repudiated: the fears and nationalistic resentments of the late 19th century revived in a new and much more virulent form.

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Most people are shaking off the Superbowl carb slump and many forms of regionally-based team ebullience or depression Monday morning and waking up to this news.

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Investors put out the welcome mat for homebuilders in the first half of the year, pushing up their share prices despite the worst pace of new-home sales since the Great Depression on expectations of a long-awaited rebound after the 2008 and 2009 slump.

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In Thailand, as elsewhere, the next stage of Asia's depression will see growing pressure on western lenders to bear more of the pain of a slump they helped create.

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