Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public spending. Trouble is, the tight money situation in West Germany affects Giscard's hopes for an expanding French economy because it means a shrinking German market for French goods, as well as a more aggressive effort by West German industries to export goods in order to offset slack sales at home...
...slow and very slow." This tactic played havoc with News deadlines, prevented the publishing of more than 700 ad pages in 19 days, and cost the paper some $2 million in lost revenue. News officials responded with an ultimatum: either the printers tighten up by May 6 or the slack would be handled by automation. When the publishers made good on their threat, Powers acted...
...electricity, but they are running slowly now. Last winter's rain was low, and snow fell only lightly in the Himalayas, where the great rivers of north India swell. The flow in those rivers is now down to a trickle. Nor can coal-fired generators take up the slack. Plagued with their own problems, including limited fuel supplies, they are not working at full capacity. At present sky-high prices, India also cannot afford to import as much oil as it needs to operate the supplementary plants that power individual factories. So the country faces power shortages that promise...
...some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will reduce output to keep supply and demand in balance and prices high. Indeed, Venezuela, Kuwait and Libya have already decreased their production of oil; but Iran, Nigeria, Indonesia and others have stepped up theirs, more than making up the slack...
...dispute. A pint of whisky a day, enough to make eight or ten ordinary highballs, provides about 1,200 calories-roughly half the ordinary energy requirement-without any food value. As a result, an alcoholic usually has a weak appetite and often suffers from malnutrition and vitamin deficiency. The slack cannot be taken up by popping vitamin pills; heavy alcohol consumption impairs the body's utilization of vitamins. At the same time, excessive intake of alcohol also affects the production and activity of certain disease-fighting white blood cells, giving the alcoholic a particularly...