Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unexpected rise in the value of Liberty coins reflects a misjudgment on the part of Congress, dealers say. Two years ago, the lawmakers authorized the Treasury to mint 2 million commemorative gold coins honoring the Los Angeles Olympics, the first such special issue since 1932. Demand, however, was slack, possibly because collectors thought that additional Olympic coins might be issued every four years. Determined not to flood the market again, Congress this time ordered Treasury officials to mint only 500,000 of the gold coins for the Liberty series. But collectors, realizing that Miss Liberty's centennial is unique, drove...
Still, Mia herself admits that she sometimes thought about giving up all the lonely hours of practicing--but only until she was 10. "By the age of 10, I started to slack off and I wasn't practicing very much and my teacher always told me to practice more. But I was always dumping my books after school and going out to play," she says...
...Slack; 276 pages...
...Gorbachev is demanding better economic performance from his allies not through any drastic reform but simply through attacking the familiar abuses of the Communist systems: waste, corruption, sclerotic bureaucracy and poor workmanship. Instead of policy and leadership changes, $ Eastern Europe's regimes are under marching orders to take the slack out of the existing economic systems. Central planning remains, but better and younger economic management is expected to bring improved results...
...faculty in the land if not to liberate them from the troublesome burden of teaching, thereby giving them the time for more research and the landing of bigger and better research grants? Both the faculty and the University benfit. But what about the students? Who will pick up the slack if junior members are freed from classroom responsibilities? The senior faculty, even if they could be found within state lines, have probably forgotten how. Maybe they could hire baby-sitters...