Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Picking up the slack against Penn was Amen, whose grounder gave the Crimson defense all it needed to ice the victory. Amen seems to fare well against the Quakers, having tallied last year at Franklin Field...
Brown's front line has been hurt by the loss of 1988 Ivy scoring leader Theresa Hirschauer to graduation. but its defense has picked up the slack this year...
Some economists believe the slack period will be short-lived and will be followed by renewed growth, a scenario that has them searching for metaphors. David Hale, chief economist of Chicago's Kemper Financial Services, characterizes the slowdown as an "output pause." Geoffrey Moore, an economics professor at Columbia University, talks of a "stutter step." Economist Lyle Gramley, a former Fed governor, says that by late 1990 the slowdown may be followed by a period of "economic refreshment...
...their instant emotional familiarity, the way they seem to carry so much of Snow's emotional freight with no strain. The record's last song, Cardiac Arrest, is a kick, a stops-out rocker that dares to be a little goofy, that cuts the listener a little welcome slack. Even here, though, Snow is laughing at the expense of a mangled heart. The women Snow sings about put themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another improbably beguiling Snow song about love gone...
Warren and Slack both say that the lawprofessor works on the same grade scale as otherstudents, and that he does the same work...