Word: slacken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further pressure on the dollar, which in the past two weeks has slumped to eight-month lows against key foreign currencies, sent gold climbing to glittering new heights, and made a mockery of the Administration's repeated assertions that the double-digit run-up in living costs would slacken this summer and abate substantially by year...
...cold weather did not deter undergraduates and students at the Kennedy School of Government from picketing around the Charles W. Engelhard Library of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School. Controversy about naming the library after the millionaire who had publicly condoned the apartheid government in South Africa did not slacken...
...mortgage rates, leading later this year to a slowdown in housing construction. Consumers are building up such heavy debts that they will have to start paying them back in several months. In response to the fall-off in consumer spending, business spending for new plant and equipment will also slacken...
...Cyrus] Vance to contact all the parties concerned so that we could start at Geneva discussing the substance, not the procedural arrangements. But it was rejected by the Syrians. This is their habit. Whatever Egypt proposes, they reject at once, even without discussing it. The peace process started to slacken...
...felt the towline of the boatmen slacken...