Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies, measures the health of its business by the daily mail. Between 1973 and 1978, it received about 250 financing proposals each year. This year it expects to receive 400. The quality of applications is improving too. Says Sutter Hill Partner G. Leonard Baker Jr.: "During the slack times, we were seeing people with very few alternatives for finding new money. Now we're seeing an explosion of entrepreneurs...
...diamonds, and is by a wide margin the most influential member of the London-based Central Selling Organization, an international price-fixing cartel of diamond producers. In spite of the cartel's efforts to stabilize the market, diamond prices have fallen because of excessive speculation combined with a slack in demand...
...getting the full amount. I think it's a breach of promise on the part of the government to promise these funds, and then to arbitrarily pull back at the last minute. There's no way the private sector will be able to make up the slack," Fichlandar says...
...federal budget exquisitely tailored to the current agenda of the American right. The government is to be forced off the backs of the people, through reductions in social services, safety regulations and income assistance, leaving private enterprise free to invest and expand in ways that will take up the slack for the abandoned government functions. The Defense Department is exempt from these cutbacks because it must increase preparedness against the world-wide Soviet threat. Furthermore, the government will cut taxes in an effort to encourage investment in the once-again-robust private sector...
Chronic illness plagues old people far more than acute short-term illness. Medicare, which ends after only ninety days, scarcely aids chronically ill patients. Traditionally, as the costs of long-term care impoverished old people, Medicaid, a medical support program for the poor, took up much of the coverage slack. But the Reagan administration wants to cut federal funds for the state-run Medicaid programs...