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...have any one or two hitters that we can rely on, but on the other hand, nobody can point to our sixth hitter and say that he's an easy out. So far this season someone has always been there to take up the slack when we needed it," Park said...
...volume has expanded steadily under Henry Hall Wilson, a former administrative assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson who took over as president of the Board of Trade nearly five years ago. In order to increase trading during periods when speculative activity in farm goods is slack, Wilson has moved the board into making a futures market for such nonagricultural products as plywood and silver...
...loss of both will hurt the Crimson tonight, but the squad's depth should be able to take up the slack. Jim Fitzsimmons, who is still among the nation's top twenty scorers with a 25-point average, and sophomore Ken Wolfe will probably start as guards...
Something has been lost in the translations. Isherwood's stories were taut, bittersweet recollections of bohemian Berlin in the early '30s. By the time Scenarist Allen and Director Fosse have wrung them out, what's left -with one exception-is mostly slack and sour. The exception is their vibrant star Liza Minnelli, who cocks a derby over a green-shadowed eye and struts off with the movie, or as much of it as is worth carrying...
Dams and dikes would form a basin which could contain eight billion gallons of water. During slack energy periods, electricity generated at other Con Ed plants would be used to pump water into the reservoir; during peak periods, this water would be released to generate electricity to meet the increased demand. Ironically, five kilowatts of energy produced elsewhere would be needed to obtain four kilowatts from the Storm King project...