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...American downturn would be felt by nations that have been fueling their economies by exports to the U.S. At next month's economic summit conference in Bonn, Treasury Secretary James Baker and President Reagan will make a plea to U.S. trading partners to take up any slack caused by the slowing American expansion. Last week, during a meeting of the policymaking committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Baker heard foreign complaints that the U.S. must get its budget and trade deficits under control if the outlook for world economic growth is to remain favorable...
...against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) two weeks ago, charging that its reduction requirements for mercury are grossly inadequate and will allow some of the most egregious polluters (typically older, coal-fired power plants) to avoid installing mercury controls indefinitely. I might be inclined to cut the EPA some slack if the rule-writing process didn't smell so, well, fishy. But the Government Accountability Office and the EPA inspector general have criticized the agency for ignoring scientific evidence and allowing industry lobbyists too much input...
...He’s important to our club and certainly he’s picked up some of the slack for our scoring over the last 10 games,” Donato said. “It will be important that he continues to be a major factor...
...Watching Bush loop the slack in the microphone, needle his guests on stage and slip into a gooey Texas slang, it?s clear that he's enjoying his role as Social Security infomercial host as he travels around the country selling his plan. Aides compare the President?s psychic thrill of campaigning to the physical charge he gets from his hour-long bike rides...
Summers’ chief of staff, Jason M. Solomon ’93-’95, said in an interview that other staffers would pick up the slack if a replacement for McNeil were not found before her departure...