If there is one thing you take from this letter, though, Mike, it is that we should really be fighting these economic doldrums together.

After the economic doldrums of the 1960s and early 1970s, the city's economy began to recover in the 1980s.

Latin America has emerged from the economic doldrums of the 1970s and 1980s to become a commercial power of its own right in the 1990s.

During the economic doldrums of the early 1990's, hiring began to increase in the restaurant industry about six months before job creation began taking off.

True, Obama inherited a mess and the economic doldrums are probably not entirely his fault.

Research suggests that our present economic doldrums are directly related to the lack of a strong science policy in the past.

But Alaska is not alone in its economic doldrums.

City and state officials support the project as a catalyst to jolt Hartford out of its economic doldrums.

But all the participants recognized that the region's economic doldrums have made huge investments unlikely, at least in the next few years.

The Economy Americans are hitting the road again after putting off trips during the economic doldrums of recent years.