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Word: slack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wake Forest never looked back. Although Pamintuan defaulted in third singles to Henikoff because of an ankle injury, Pamintuan's team-mates picked up the slack...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netwomen Fall to Demon Deacons, 7-2 | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...School administrators say the trend is part of a broader national phenomenon. As the federal government has cut back on human services, non-profit firms have been forced to take up the slack, pushing K-School professors to re-evaluate their goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K-School Students Forsake Government Jobs | 3/2/1990 | See Source »

...think Ian Smith has done a good job for us," Roby said. "It hurts not to have Tchad. We have to pick up the slack, and I think we have the players to do that...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: M. Cagers Annihilate Suffolk, 119-86 | 2/7/1990 | See Source »

...going to have to pick up the slack," blue-liner Brian Popiel said. "We'll probably be a little sluggish after this weekend, but the fact that the Garden's rink is so small should help us. We won't have to run around as much...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Icemen Stagger Into Garden Tonight For 38th Beanpot | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...football scoreboard. For reasons still being investigated, a computer in New York City had come to believe it was overloaded with calls, and it started to reject them. Alerted to New York's troubles, dozens of backup computers across the U.S. automatically switched in to take up the slack -- only to exhibit the same bizarre symptoms. People trying to place long-distance calls all over the world suddenly began to hear busy signals and recorded messages blandly informing them that "all circuits" were busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost in The Machine | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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