Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coming out with guns drawn, the 'Throp scored on their first possession on a 35-yd. Charlie Slack to Mark Ashenfelter pass. Only minutes and two fumbles later--one by each team--Slack scrambled and hit Billy Marston for another tally. Peter Martin nailed that extra point for a 13-0 first quarter lead...
...ball to the Bell Boy 7 on three crisp plays, the Levthrops incurred four penalties while trying to complete one down, setting them back a full fifty yards. With second and goal on their own 43, the Winthrop/Leverett offense went into the shotgun, but Lowell defender Jeff Schwaber snagged Slack's pass to end the retreat...
...problem lies in Manley's effort to increase the percentage of government revenue from bauxite exports. In so doing, the prime minister raised the price of Jamaica's bauxite far above world levels, and Australia and Guinea--the two largest producers--were more than happy to replace the slack in supply that Jamaica's artificially high price had caused...
...Bruins took advantage of the situation, and consistently threatened in the first 25 minutes of the half. The Harvard back line--regulars Peter Sergienko, John Duggan, and Deniz Perese, plus first-time starter Andreas Keller-Sarmiento, picked up the slack brilliantly, collapsing around the Harvard net and shutting down the Brown threat...
Instead of handing Olive's leash to the newspapers, Epps insisted on holding it himself--and then allowed the manager far too much slack. Olive himself admits that things began to go downhill for him more than two years ago, when the Times forced him to perform yeoman's work in starting up circulation after the fall 1978 newspaper strike. Failing two courses as a result, Olive says he began experiencing personal problems which led him to abuse HDNS; and a Times official says he believes Olive began mixing his personal money with HDNS funds at about that time...