Word: slacked
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Keynes, who held that deficit spending could pump up a slack economy. Johnson later balked at the pleas of his Keynesian advisers to pay for the Viet Nam War with higher taxes in order to keep the economy from overheating and pushing up prices. Nonetheless, so prestigious had Keynes' views become that even Republican President Nixon could declare in 1971, "I am now a Keynesian...
Beginning in 1979 French F and French G students have written and filmed video programs imitating television's "Eyewitness News," shows which Senior Preceptor Anne Slack says "have to be humorous and far-fetched, or else we'd get terribly bored...
...recreating an entire program--news, weather, editorials and commercials--Slack says her students "have to learn body movements and gestures that are as authentically French as possible," since students at this level "usually have very good pronunciation and need only work on the little details you see at the advanced level...
...primacy of market forces and thinks business growth is generally a good thing. He voted against imposing a windfall-profits tax on newly discovered U.S. oil. Nuclear power, he believes, cannot be phased out until the next century, when conservation and "renewable energy technologies" might pick up the slack. Nor is he reflexively sympathetic to labor unions; they are skeptical of Hart but supported him in both his Senate races...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor Emeritus and Honorary Director of the Japan Institute, said that after a period of expansion in the 50's, interest in East Asian studies began to slack off a decade ago. He added that the trend has begun to reverse in the last few years...