Word: slack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...risk-free only in a totalitarian society." Given certain intractable facts about men and sex, there is an inevitable trade off between safety and freedom. There is no way women will be able to "take back the night" completely. Individual prudence and responsibility will have to take up the slack. Paglia blasts feminists for blinding women to the this simple fact. "A girl who goes upstairs alone with a brother at a fraternity party is an idiot," She writes. "Feminists call this 'blaming the victim.' I call it common sense...
Indeed, conservative writers like William Safire and Rush Limbaugh, silent during the Reagan-Bush years, have more than picked up the slack with Clinton in the White House, When these journalists try to dig up dirt, their targets are almost always on the other side of the political spectrum. Liberals investigate conservatives, and vice versa. Those who complain of a bias in the media can only be justified if they are referring to the former section; and no conclusive of basis in the factual reporting section has been put forth...
Bell-bottom manufacturers weren't the only ones prospering in the '70s. Job creation soared during the supposedly slack years. The chart reflects job growth in each decade in relation to total jobs in the previous decade...
...Permissiveness" is the standard explanation, meaning that we have become a slack-willed race, slaves to every passing genital urging. Why else would a man take up with a gorgeous blond cocktail waitress, forgetting that, for all practical purposes, he already had one at home? Permissiveness, according to the theory, makes us contemptuous of such "traditional values" as loyalty, self-sacrifice and the old till-death-do-us-part type of marriage...
Harvard's season begins and ends on the shoulders of Giardi. Should he go down, there's no backup quarterback to pick up the slack. (David Morgan '94, the backup quarterback and starting punter for last year's squad, took...