Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What moved Kuhrmeier to set up his bank within a bank remains a psychological mystery. So far, investigators appear to be convinced that he gained no personal profit from the alleged fraud. But as a top London banker points out, the scandal "could have happened in any other country. Slack management is not just a Swiss problem." What makes the case special is that no other country seeks to maintain such a mystique about its "inviolable" banking system. The scandal spotlighted the extent to which Swiss banks are trusted to police themselves. The chief external watchdog, the Bern-based Federal...
Young toughs call it "kiddie court" because of its leniency; so do policemen and prosecutors. New York City Family Court, governed by strict laws designed to protect children and served by slack bureaucracies, primarily handles domestic disputes, but it is also where the kid criminals between seven and 15 are sent. TIME Bureau Chief Laurence I. Barrett watched delinquency proceedings in the Manhattan branch. His report...
...same time, responding to the high prices and consumer boycotts, U.S. coffee drinkers reduced their consumption by 17% in the past year. Slack demand and the prospect of heavy harvests have driven down futures prices on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. Contracts for coffee beans to be delivered in July fell to $1.95 last week, a drop of $1.45 a Ib. since April...
...even without the services of first baseman Mike Hudgens, the nation's number two RBI man with 72. Hudgens was unavailable as a result of a virtual coach's nightmare; he lost concentration while playing catch, and the ball shattered his nose. But no one could take up the slack better than the nation's number one RBI man (87), second baseman Bob Horner, who also tied the NCAA homer mark with 22 round trippers...
...failure of the University search committee to name a successor in the nine months since he announced his retirement made it necessary to stay on to "take up the slack" in the Department of Athletics, Watson added...