Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainly by heavy Government borrowing to finance huge budget deficits, which could reach $220 billion this year, rather than by the Federal Reserve's attempt to slow economic growth. The Treasury tapped credit markets for $41.5 billion during the second quarter, an unprecedented amount in a normally slack period. The Treasury borrowed just $11.7 billion in the second quarter...
...trial of Claus von Bülow for the attempted killing of his wife Sunny transformed family griefs into a Roman circus, and Journalist William Wright adopts a barker's tone in his recollection of the slack, tedious life of the idle rich. (Sunny rose at 11, rarely left the house except to go shopping, and employed eleven gardeners to manicure eleven acres.) He deftly records the countless lies and petty sins of the accused murderer, starting with the facts that Claus was neither a von nor a Bülow (his father, Svend Borberg, was a convicted...
...Harvard's dominance in collegiate crew, a position which has been challenged in recent years by Yale. "Most of the team realized we would have to do something different this year if we were going to have a good season." Rogers says, adding. "Harvard crews can't afford to slack off anymore to win you need to row your absolute best because of the new competition...
Danny Ainge and Scott Wedman picked up the scoring slack in Bird's absence. Ainge hit a career-high 25 points, and Wedman...
...Hewlett-Packard, an American firm heavily involved with micro-chip technology, recently told a Harvard Business School group that America's share in the global electronics market has dropped from a post-war 100 percent to a current 25 percent, with Japan and other Asian nations picking up the slack. He did not, though, attribute this decrease to the inability of American goods to compete in world markets but to the decline in quality and numbers of science teachers in high schools...