Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ironic reason for the slack demand for so-called sweet crude like Britain's Brent light is that its quality is too high. Traditionally, refiners were willing to pay a premium for light, low-sulfur crude, which is used primarily to make gasoline. But refiners in the past year have improved their technology so that they use more of the less expensive, heavy crude. Thus the so-called sour oil is getting a larger share of the market, and its price has been holding firmer. In the past few weeks Saudi Arabia has boosted its exports of heavy crude...
Despite the "very messy game", the visiting ruggers "didn't slack off and kept up our own level of play," Forward Captain Janet Bixby said...
Ideally, sugar coating of profits is supposed to be corrected or protested by a company's external auditors. But since the late 1970s, increased competition among accounting firms has fostered some slack auditing. Says John Fedders, Shad's enforcement chief: "There's tremendous pressure on accounting firms to lower their prices. Some firms can, but only by cutting corners...
...GSAS is supposed to take up the slack. "There is a concern that graduate students get full, personal attention. It's tough being a graduate student, and I think people are becoming sensitive to those needs," says Nancy S. Reinhardt, assistant dean for student affairs and special students, whose office coordinates student services...
...College decided to house all freshmen in the Yard after debating several other options, such as making all the Houses four-year residences by converting the Yard dorms into houses--at considerable expense--to take up the slack...