Word: slacking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sophomore skipper Roberta Steele and sophomore crew Lauren Brants picked up the slack as best as they could in the remaining 11 races, leading the Crimson to an eighth-place finish in A-division...
...It’s the beginning of March, the beginning of spring, and the beginning of Cambridge’s slow transition from the land of permanent darkness to a place where the sun sets after 4 p.m. On account of this, I find it the perfect day to slack off from my workaholic load and enjoy the loafing. Anyone’s welcome to join me. No fishing rods are required...
...beds, often will not work overnight shifts because the neighborhood is unsafe. At night, Shuwetij usually hears the sound of gunfire close by, and mortars have fallen near the hospital grounds. Shuwetij, who's been a surgeon at the hospital for the last 14 years, picks up the slack on the night shifts along with his wife, another doctor at the hospital. The two have turned one of hospital's side rooms into a tiny bedroom. They stay on overnight at the hospital five or six nights a week, taking only the occasional break to stay with family elsewhere...
...Andrew Knapp lost by a major decision to finish the day.“With Bode out, we had to move on,” Meltzer said. “For Robbie, we knew it was a temporary thing, but everyone on the team had to pick up the slack. I knew that through the middle [weight classes] we should be able to get a lot of wins, so I just made sure I started it off in the right direction and built the momentum.”“Bode is going to be sorely missed...
...That’s good news for Zambrano, who is hoping for “a little bit of slack on the SAT scores.” Perhaps they’ll put more weight on other parts of his applications, like his essays, which he sees as the strongest part of his application: “It’s not numbers and letters,” he says. “It’s the closest they can get to actually knowing me as a person rather than from a computer screen or numbers...