Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yesterday only Eliot was on the minds of Winthrop quarterback Charlie Slack and company Winthrop opened the scoring in the first quarter, when Slack found an open Cormac McLeod in the end zone When he hit Claudio Phillips for the two-point conversion Eliot found itself behind...
...increases over three years. Management held out for concessions worth $6 billion. By taking a hard line, the companies are risking their first strike in 24 years when the current contract expires at the end of next July. Yet with the steel industry still suffering from excess capacity and slack demand, the union has little leverage in the talks...
...hard hit by high rates. Farmlands, which once served as attractive loan collateral, are falling in value, and thus many commercial banks no longer view farmers as worthy risks. In the past ten years, commercial bank participation in farm debt has dropped from 57% to 41%. Taking up the slack somewhat, U.S. Government lending institutions have increased non-mortgage farm loans from 14% to 31% during the same period...
Those hardest hit by unemployment--the lower-middle and lower classes and minorities--have received another clear message of betrayal. The cancellation of billions of dollars worth of social programs to alleviate suffering and give deprived groups a chance for betterment dramatizes the government slack of interest in making America a land of opportunity for those who most need it. The cuts and impending cuts in educational aid have turned the age-old ideal of economic betterment and class mobility into a wisp of myth...
...into problems of their own, including shortage of spare parts for warplanes, ammunition and high-technology missiles like the French-built Exocet that smashed the H.M.S. Sheffield two weeks ago. Argentine military suppliers, such as France and West Germany, have embargoed further shipments to the country. Some of the slack will be taken up by neighboring Brazil, which has its own burgeoning arms industry but cannot supply the most sophisticated weapons. Some military observers in Argentina believe that the Soviet Union has offered weaponry and other forms of support. So far, the Argentines have shown no inclination to accept Soviet...