Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slack has tested the computer psychiatrist on a group of 32 subjects. He said that most of the patients had little difficulty in adjusting to talking to a computer rather than a human...
...Warner V. Slack, assistant professor of Medicine, has developed a computer which may be able to replace a psychiatrist during the initial stages of analysis...
This discounting has roused considerable controversy. Shoppers charge that many discount stores are dirty and slack on service. The Federal Trade Commission claims that some cut-rate items promoted by A. & P. stores are not available at the advertised price when customers try to buy them. A. & P must now either agree to a consent order to correct its practices or risk a formal complaint from the FTC. Meanwhile, complaints are clanking in from other chains, which are striving to meet A. & P.'s posted prices. Bohack President Joseph Binder fumes: "A. & P. is helping to place the supermarket...
...receptions accorded Nixon people earlier in the campaign, volunteers will move onto campuses when colleges reopen in the fall. Community and vocational colleges, where Nixon support has been consistently good, will get special attention from Youth Division registration teams -possibly with the hope of taking up some of the slack created by the heavy going on larger liberal arts campuses...
...Grusons have separated and, effective July 1, Lewis becomes chief of the Times Paris bureau. A number of jaws went slack at the news that an "outsider" was moving into one of the paper's choicest overseas jobs. "It is an unusual situation," conceded Foreign Editor James Greenfield, while denying rumors that the appointment had caused a minirevolt. A few local employees of the bureau consulted their union about whether they could resign as a group without violating their contract. (They could not.) Correspondent John Hess-the chap who had locked the door-asked for and received a transfer...