Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that an appropriate policy? Republicans Sprinkel and Murray L. Weidenbaum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, say yes: they think that the recovery now in prospect is the fastest that the U.S. can afford without kicking up inflation. Democrats Heller, Okun and Pechman insist that there is so much slack in the economy that a more expansionary policy would speed recovery and bring the jobless rate down faster while producing little or no added inflation. Yet Pechman concludes resignedly that in the present political climate, an extension of the 1975 tax cut and a money supply growth within Federal Reserve...
...Warner V. Slack, associate professor of Medicine, said yesterday he thinks there was a consensus at the Friday meeting that the school should try to increase the size of its classes to accommodate more socio-economically disadvantaged students, but that "nobody seemed to know where the money would come from...
...fell, Japan's aggressive businessmen swiftly expanded foreign sales, helping to right their economy but annoying such hard-pressed trading partners as the U.S., Britain and France. Last year alone Japan increased its exports over the year before by 50%, to $58 billion. And this year, despite the slack in global trade, it expects to export another $57 billion...
...modest $14 million experiment to help low-income families buy a "nutritionally adequate diet," has been a lifesaver for millions of destitute Americans. But it has also helped the not so destitute. In recent years the program has grown to astonishing size, in part because its slack eligibility requirements enable even moderately well-off people to qualify and make policing difficult. The system now subsidizes 19 million people, one out of every eleven Americans. Working families receiving stamps outnumber welfare households 55% to 45%. Conservatives, with Treasury Secretary William Simon in the fore, have attacked the system as a welfare...
...cameras so as to make his locks bounce as he slid into third. To me his shorn head will always be the symbol of baseball's bad side. Hell, I'm not asking for a Ted Simmons or even an Oscar "High Hat" Gamble -- but Pete, cut us some slack. Let it grow...