Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nureyev's supporting cast does little to help pick up the slack. Making a comeback on the screen for the first time since the days of An American in Paris, Leslie Caron plays a middle-aged Russian star on the decline, who dreams of sharing top billing with the new sensation of Hollywood. Her performance betrays the length of her absence from movies; in a role that calls for an eccentric sort, Caron fails to discriminate between the passionate and the hammy. Her performance deteriorates into a caricature of The Beautiful People of that period. Michelle Phillips passes...
...Phillies capitalized on some slack fielding by Dodger shortstop Bill Russell and displayed air-tight defense as well as timely hitting en route to a 7-5 triumph over the West Division champs...
...uncertainty over who will take over a department that is in dire need of strong long-range planning will take a long time to settle. Finally, the departure of Pittenger will put Watson's successor under pressure to name a competent associate director soon, to take up the slack...
...black labor (U.S. subsidiaries prefer to play by the official rules). For some companies, use of the secret labor pool can spell the difference between survival and bankruptcy. Italian industry is bound hand and foot by prounion laws that make it virtually impossible to lay off workers in slack periods, mandate extensive and expensive fringe benefits and tie official factory wages to soaring prices; unionized workers further stage incessant strikes and have horrendous rates of absenteeism. In a sense, the clandestine workers and their employers are reintroducing really free enterprise into a rigid system...
...directly from the mini-gymnastics devised for cramped U.S. astronauts on flights to the moon. Explains Jürgen Palm, the German airline's fitness guru: "The problem of long-distance airline passengers is the same as that of astronauts: how to keep the muscles from going all slack and the blood from settling in legs and feet and to keep the joints from becoming stiff. For people who are not in shape, getting off a long flight is like a convalescent's getting up from a long time...