Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...else. Now, because they have not been doing so well in recent years, they are sure somebody else has been getting away with murder. They have a feeling that "I got the short end of the stick. Somebody must have got the long end." The fact is that a slack economy has two short ends of the stick...
...proposes now will lead to a budget deficit of $17 billion by fiscal 1975. That will occur even if the economy is by then operating at full employment, which is usually defined as a jobless rate no higher than 4%. Large deficits can be tolerated when there is substantial slack in the economy, but so huge a red-ink figure at full employment would be grossly inflationary. Not until fiscal 1977, the Brookings scholars believe, will economic growth bring in enough tax revenue to yield a budget surplus of a relatively small $5 billion. Even that calculation assumes that...
When would the attack on Hué come? After the fall of Quang Tri, an ominous slack-off in Communist activity occurred last week on all three major battlefields, while the foe regrouped and marshaled his forces. In the Saigon area, Communist pressure eased on the long-besieged city of An Loc, 60 miles north of the capital. In the Central Highlands, the Communists made no move to follow up their rout of the ARVN 22nd Division with a direct assault on Kontum, which has been surrounded by Communist troops and is highly vulnerable to capture. Would the Communists strike...
...have any one or two hitters that we can rely on, but on the other hand, nobody can point to our sixth hitter and say that he's an easy out. So far this season someone has always been there to take up the slack when we needed it," Park said...
...volume has expanded steadily under Henry Hall Wilson, a former administrative assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson who took over as president of the Board of Trade nearly five years ago. In order to increase trading during periods when speculative activity in farm goods is slack, Wilson has moved the board into making a futures market for such nonagricultural products as plywood and silver...