Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Access to insurance coverage is synonymous with access to adequate health care in this country," says Glen Maxey, executive director of the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas. Maxey, along with others, argues that it is unfair for the industry to expect public health-care insurance to pick up the slack...
...does more with his 24-hour day than most of us. He edits the conservative National Review, writes a syndicated column, lectures widely, composes spy novels and stars as a TV Torquemada on his inquisitorial talk show Firing Line. When he is not administering polysyllabic lashings to liberals, slack thinkers and casual grammarians, Buckley may be found afloat. His relish for blue water and white sails is persuasively advertised in Airborne (1976), Atlantic High (1982) and now Racing Through Paradise, books that, among other things, make work and play look like a distinction without a difference...
Although University officials outlawed senior bars this year, prohibiting the Class Committee from fulfilling its traditional role as organizer of the month of nightly parties, individual seniors have taken up the slack. About 30 rooming groups appointed themselves hosts and have composed and distributed schedules to all of their friends...
...effort is underway in Cambridge to set up a year-round shelter for the local homeless population to pick up the slack after three seasonal shelters close at the end of this month, officials announced at last night's City Council meeting...
...combined advances earned by Stephen King, James Michener, Sidney Sheldon and Danielle Steel for their first novel." Aside from the tantalizing but possibly erroneous suggestion of a King-Michener-Sheldon-St eel collaboration, there is not much to celebrate. For one thing, a cool million no longer induces the slack-jawed awe it once did; everyone knows that insider traders on Wall Street can steal that much before lunch. And British Author Sally Beauman is not really a first novelist. She has written nine Harlequin romances under a pseudonym...