Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital necessary for Britain--an island that cannot live without imports--to finance its balance of payments deficit. American banks recently announced, jointly, that they felt they were fully "loaned out" to Britain, France and Italy. Other international monetary powers may be willing to take up some of the slack for a short while, but a real financing of Britain's 6 billion pound annual deficit could only come from the Arabs, and those ultra-security-conscious investors are hardly likely to invest very heavily in a country whose economic future must seem so unsettling to the capitalist...
...brought up again. More important, the Bundy action can be construed as a blunt message to Washington: do something about the falling stock market and the inflation that ate up $400 million of the Ford Foundation's purchasing power in 1973 or be prepared to pick up the slack if the foundation cuts back or goes under...
...corn," and to "kernel," of which "cornel" is a disused form. Has the butterfly been caught? Not necessarily. It should not be overlooked that "kern" in its old Celtic sense means "a band of foot soldiers," which suggests "infantry," which (by a leap of sound past sense) suggests "infants": slack freshman faces staring in sweet stupefaction as an exiled genius speaks subtly of Lermontov. Snagged in the net, this dubious flutterer is obviously fake or freak. No matter. Pin it to the board and name it after poor old VadimVadimych...
...networks lately have shown increased willingness to examine TV's flaws in public. Still, documentaries in the expose vein - regardless of the specific subject - have problems on network TV. Says Av Westin, executive producer of the Closeup series: "Sponsorship has been slack. It's not an easy sell." In the New York market last week, Closeup's commercial slots were filled with public service announcements and plugs for upcoming ABC shows. And, though ABC showed spunk in airing the program, it did so on Labor Day. Any subsequent Monday evening would have assured a larger audience...
Anne Peretz said that her husband will perform some of her former duties in the House but other people in the house will also take up some of the slack. She said that she actually has been doing very little in the House for the past few months...