Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mark Rosenzweig and his colleagues at Berkeley indicate :hat animals trained to learn and assimilate information develop heavier cerebral cortices, more glial cells and bigger nerve cells. But does the computer really stimulate the brain's activity or, by doing so much of its work, permit it to go slack...
This has become abundantly clear since last March when Saudi Arabia, the group's biggest producer at 7.5 million bbl. per day of output, forced through what amounted to a 9.6% production cut. Its purpose: to take up slack in the market and prevent petroleum prices from slipping below the cartel's official $34-per-bbl. bench-mark level. Once they had agreed to the cuts, Iran, Libya, Venezuela and several other cash-squeezed member states began pumping crude at levels above their ceilings (see chart), as well as discounting the price to their customers. As a result...
...dearth of shots in the early going and was shaky versus Iselmoe's attack later in the game Over all, said assistant Coach Ronn Tomassoni. "We really didn't skate well enough to win on most night. But it's nice to have one line pick up the slack when your others...
...Karl Shapiro commemorated her brief meeting with a colleague: "And when Dylan Thomas was introduced/ To Katherine Anne Porter in a room full of people,/ He stopped and picked her up below the thighs/ And raised her to the ceiling like a drink,/ And held her straight in the slack-jawed smoke-blue air/ Two minutes, five minutes, seven minutes,/ While everybody wondered what it meant/ To toast the lady with her own body/ Or to hold her to the light like a plucked flower." Yet nothing-not her hectic love life, or a screenwriting stint in Hollywood...
Just two plays later, though, Tony Ashman stopped in front of a K-Land receiver and intercepted a Bobby Sherlock pass. With the ball only eight yards from the goal line. Slack went back to work...