Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During at least part of his stay at Harvard. Hampton stayed in the room of a Winthrop House student with whom he had apparently attached high school briefly in Buffalo, N.Y. According to one of the student's roommates, Charles W. Slack '83, Hampton told them he was in town for an admissions interview...
...days later he told them he would be staying later than he had planned because he had missed his plane to Europe, where he purportedly planned to meet his mother to go shopping in Rome and skiing in Switzerland. Slack said...
...Robert Santiago, the sophomore who started at the fullback spot the first four games, Santiago who pulled a hamstring at Cornell had never run a play from the fullback position until September. He and Bill Saleeby moved to fullback from other running back positions to pick up the slack left by injuries...
...make it 57 sec. by the fourth mark. But on the fifth leg, a 4.5-mile run with the wind dead astern, the lead and the Cup changed hands. Playing the wind shifts, Conner moved to the left and sailed into a patch of dead air. With sails almost slack, Liberty jibed back, but the Aussie superboat picked up two shifts of friendly wind and rounded the fifth mark with a 21-sec. lead. Conner battled desperately to recover on the last, upwind leg, going through 47 grueling tacks. Said the American skipper: "We kept the pressure on them...
...market for domestic wines, it showed no signs of cutting into the lead of durable E. & J. Gallo Winery, which commands 27.7%. Privately held Gallo was reducing prices and boosting advertising to maintain its market share. Making matters worse for Coca-Cola, demand for wine was slack during all of last year and the first quarter of this year. While Coca-Cola earns a return of 10% to 15% on soft drinks and about 10% on Columbia Pictures, the return on its wine business was below...