Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...park. Teachers scrimp too, earning from $9,000 to $13,500 a year, compared with the $10,000 to $25,000 offered by the public schools. But there are few complaints. "The curriculum here is much more difficult," says Third-Grade Teacher Barbara Urban, 27. "Nobody is allowed to slack or goof off." Boasts Teacher Stephanie Love: "I have parent volunteers to help me grade papers and to tutor the children who need special work...
...next year on $21 billion in foreign debts. Already Warsaw must spend 82% of its foreign sales revenue to service such debt. Most of it stems from bobbled efforts to build an industrial base after World War II. Two primary exports, steel and textiles, have been hurt by slack demand abroad. Polish agriculture contributes little either to foreign earnings or domestic stomachs. The workers' strikes, set off by hikes in meat prices, added to the economic breakdown...
Unable to retain its hold on the trophies in women's soccer and touch football, Winthrop picked up the slack in other areas by winning cross country, men's soccer and co-ed touch football...
...Frostbelt's aging manufacturing base has decayed and suffered from foreigh competition. Between 1970 and 1978, the Frostbelt altogether lost over 400,000 manufacturing jobs without much slack taken up by new jobs in the service sector. As the Joint Economic Committee once stated, "the northeast and midwest contain the oldest, least efficient manufacturing facilities, which are the first closed as production is reduced." Large, mobile corporations abandon these plants in favor of newer Sunbelt facilities, located where labor and energy is cheap, the quality of life slow and easy, and golf courses green year round. For every manufacturing...
Some grain exporters have picked up part of the trade slack by thinly disguised transshipments. During the twelve months preceding September 1979, for example, only 764,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat were shipped from Duluth, Minn., to Canada. But in the following twelve months, the quantity more than doubled, to 1.8 million tons. Says William Cortez of the Duluth Port Authority: "This is definitely not grain for Canadian consumption. You have to assume that it is being shipped elsewhere...