Word: slackenings
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...Paris-Match stems from the strikes that swept France last month. Caught up in the heady drive to democratize all institutions, the prestigious Paris-Match staff announced its intention of forming an association to participate in the running of the magazine. The journalists were concerned that Paris-Match might slacken its harddriving, even daredevil news coverage. But their ambition collided head-on with the more traditional views of Publisher Jean Prouvost, who has very firm ideas about who ought to be running a publication. At 83, Prouvost pleaded with his staff not to form the union, but they voted overwhelmingly...
...downward, international trade could expand with a fixed or even a decreasing supply of dollars; the expansion would merely have to be coupled with international deflation. But there is no reason to believe that international deflation is any more likely today than it was in the thirties. Trade will slacken instead...
Soviet Helicopters. In the air, Typhoon Carla and the onset of the monsoons accomplished what innumerable SAMS, MIGS and antiaircraft guns could not: U.S. flyers were forced to slacken their pounding of North Viet Nam. On the only two clear days, Thunderchiefs hit rail lines and bridges on the Hanoi-to-China route, and shot down the 89th MIG of the war. Navy raiders from the Oriskany bombed Haiphong bridges and the military compound in the city's suburb where giant Soviet helicopters and SAMS are assembled...
Sheet, a line used to tighten or slacken the sails...
...they make clear that they are more and more ready to adopt the methods of Western capitalism, the development-minded countries of Communist Europe are actually following Yugoslavia's lead. Yugoslavia was first to slacken party control of industry, first to bow to the efficiencies of the profit system, first actively to seek competition in world markets. Now it is first in the Bloc again-this time with a hard-sell invitation to Western capital to set up shop in conjunction with state-owned Yugoslavian firms...