Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felt at Bucharest's Continental Bar, where "Miss Dyna Mit" slithers through a tassel-tossing version of Amore Scusami. The entrance price of 10 lei ($1.60) discourages most Rumanians, but the hordes of Japanese and German, English and French businessmen who haunt Bucharest year round take up the slack. The real life of the city is best seen on a winter morning at 5:30 when the first trolleys grind across the frozen tracks and queues of workers shuffle aboard, carrying packets of bread and sausage, to head for the 23rd of August Heavy-Machinery Building Enterprise...
...another 16 plants are abuilding. But the factories were designed to supply the federation's 11 million customers, and since the breakup Malaysia has erected high tariff walls against Singapore-made goods. Result: most factories have cut production drastically, are searching for overseas markets to take up the slack. They are plagued by strike-prone unions, face increasingly stiff competition from aggressive and more experienced manufacturers in Hong Kong, Japan and Formosa...
Though many businessmen instinctively squirm at such attempts to control the marketplace, the most serious im pending threat to the economy does not come from any widespread lack of confidence in the Administration but rather from success itself. There is little slack in the U.S. economy - and an anticipated boost of anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion in defense spending for Viet Nam next year may well expand it to the limit. Shortages of skilled la bor are showing up in the construction, aviation and shipbuilding industries. As a result, draft boards throughout the country have been ordered...
There is no disagreement among American military men that the infusion of U.S. combat troops has taken up enough slack to give the plucky but war-weary South Vietnamese the pause they needed after a tough summer. At Dau Tieng the government regulars stood and fought it out for four hours without losing a single piece of equipment to the Reds. At Thach Tru they stood up and charged against heavy odds. There has been a noticeable decrease in the South Vietnamese desertion rate since the Americans began arriving in quantity. Says General William C. Westmoreland: "The presence...
Captain Bruce Fowler was out with a cold, but breaststroker Bob Corris, record-holder Bill Shrout, and those heralded sophomore sprinters took up the slack as the Crimson won seven of eleven events...