Word: slack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HOWEVER, IT HAS, GERmany included. Commenting on the October meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Scotland, Herbert Kremp, foreign-affairs columnist for Die Welt, lamented that "nothing happens in Europe" because Germany, the logical power to pick up the U.S. slack, remains in the eyes of its political elite "a neuter yearning for the bliss of inferiority." Said Kremp: "The international security system has collapsed insofar as it covers Europe. If the U.S. does not lead, no one does," he added...
After one of the most encouraging seasons in Princeton's recent history (a 12-14-1 record along with the team's first ever ECAC post season victory), the team takes the ice with a host of freshmen and sophomores who are expected to pick up the slack left by last year's six graduating seniors...
There's really nothing the Coop provides for its members that cannot be found elsewhere in the Square. One exception might be textbooks, but if there were no Coop, other stores in the Square would probably pick up the slack. If they didn't, Harvard would have to. And even that couldn't be as bad as searching for texts at the Coop every semester...
...They'll pick up some of the slack, but the midfield will still be the key," Whaton said...
Such a change will leave less time for graduatestudents to teach, and will require facultymembers to "take up some of the slack," he said...