Twenty-three years ago, amid an oil crisis and a world economic slump, the territory still had one foot in poverty.

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The market for trophy recreational western ranches in the U.S., long bogged down by the world economic slump, has recently caught fire again.

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If Europe goes into a deep or prolonged economic slump, the rest of the world follows.

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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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China seems to be coming out of its economic slump, and visions of that country once again providing fast growth in a plodding world have fueled a bit of a rush on Chinese equity funds.

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