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...funds, it will give a 50% boost to investment in consumer industries as compared with a 30% rise for heavy industry. To justify this concession to consumer wants, a delegate from Tbilisi declared that the housing situation in the Georgian capital is "tense" because of the government's slack construction schedule. A speaker from Sverdlovsk grumbled that apartment houses are being built without running water...
...helped for Wilson was the way the rested Crimson picked up the scoring slack when big gun Gary hard was limited to six points. The coach was pleased with the scoring of captain Bob Bowditch, whose points were high for the night, and Lynch, who had had double figures with 10, while Junior Tom Tangeman, also in his first varsity game, scored nine...
American men and women have become politically "slack" in recent years, Florence E. Allen, a former leader of the women's suffrage movement and the only woman judge ever to serve on the United States Court of Appeals, charged Thursday...
...second advantage of Streetcorner Research is that it does not require highly trained professional personnel. "If it could train a layman to do a job cheaper than a professional, it would hire the layman every time," Slack stated. "This laboratory is not pure science, it is practical." In short, the program does not require a psychiatrist to psychoanalyze and treat each delinquent. Though Slack admits the effectiveness of this method in those cases where the cooperation of the youth can be obtained, he confidently believes that the employer-employee relationship will produce the same results in a greater number...
...Slack, associated this year with the University of Alabama, is continuing to take up the challenge of juvenile delinquency in new, tough-minded ways. "There is still room for failure," Slack admits, "but there is room for optimism...