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Word: slacker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diplomacy: so long as cease-fires cannot be guaranteed, no U.N. or E.C. intervention force is likely to be inserted between the warring factions. The search for a peaceful solution amounts to one of the greatest diplomatic challenges the E.C. has faced since its inception. Germany, derided as a slacker by some allies during the gulf war, has now stepped out in front. But who knows whether its initiative will help solve what may be an intractable problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: The Shock of Recognition | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...Slacker Friday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...Slacker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies | 10/3/1991 | See Source »

Every summer needs an oddball movie, muttering happily to itself in a forgotten corner of the superplex while the megabudget pictures bat each other silly. So welcome to SLACKER, a parade of all-American weirdos. Writer- director Richard Linklater has borrowed the format of La Ronde -- one character talking to a second, the second to a third and so on -- and populated it with dozens of layabouts (slackers) in Austin. These motor-mouth dropouts have decided on a life of independent study: of the Kennedy assassination, or the space program (we've been on Mars since 1962, colonizing the galaxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema & '90s | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

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