recessionary• However it, like others, is suffering in the currentrecessionaryclimate.• Operatingprofits were strongly ahead at £71.6 million, despite recessionary conditions in a number of our major markets.• As such it was badly out of touch with the recessionarymood of the Nineties.• The difficulty is that Reagan was an original, promoting an optimisticuntestedtheory in a recessionary period.• True, the men at City Halladmit, belts have had to be tightened since a recessionarysqueeze in 1991.• But in recessionary times, the number of unwanted cats has grown.• Quite a feat in these recessionary times.