Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor Department has granted $498,000 for training, only 75 blacks have been recruited-and the peak construction season is more than half over. The agreement has an "escape clause" that ties the unions' recruiting efforts to the state of the local economy. Since construction activity is slack, the unions do not want to train blacks for jobs that even whites cannot get. Moreover, Chicago blacks have been slow in pressing for more jobs...
...troop strength. In his recent State of the World message, President Nixon said that U.S. forces in Europe will remain at their present level of 310,000 until mid-1971. After that date, large cuts may take place. To a limited degree, the NATO allies can take up some slack; last week's announcement that 4,500 previously withdrawn British troops would return to West Germany is an example. But, realistically, no one can take the place of the U.S. troops. They must be strong enough to contain a conventional Soviet attack at least for a few days...
...near doubling of black enrollment last fall with the entrance of 130 black freshmen to Harvard and Radcliffe brought no comparable influx of black aspirants for the Harvard news media. In fact the slack turnout coupled with the departure of '69 graduates slightly reduced the number of blacks in these organizations...
...were in ghoul films (Die! Die! My Darling!, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors). "I needed the money and the experience." From the scare flicks it was a struggle to MGM's The Dirty Dozen in 1968. As one of the bottom six of the Dozen, a slack-jawed soldier with a head as impenetrable as a Government-issue helmet, Sutherland so impressed Director Robert Aldrich that he ordered up the tour-de-farce scene where Sutherland impersonates a general and inspects the troops on an American Army base...
...Mike Cahalan and John Munk are still listed in the latest edition of the weekly set of the season's ten best collegiate times in each event. Earlier. Dan Kobick, Steve Krause, and Henry Watson were also included, but they have since fallen off as Harvard has entered the slack stage of its schedule...