Word: slacking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...collapse of investment leaves it to U.S. consumers to take up the economic slack. They have done that so far despite a tech-stock implosion that has reduced household wealth and caused ceaseless price gyrations on Wall Street. Consumer spending has contributed some 90% of GDP growth in recent quarters. And consumers stand to get a big boost from what Berner calls "the most stimulative set of economic policies that we've seen in two decades"--a reference to the tax cut and the five interest-rate reductions the Fed has made since January. While tax rebates in the past...
...Turnover is nothing new in the Square. Some businesses thrive, and some fail, here as everywhere. Over the last decade, however, rents have become so high that few local businesses can afford to risk setting up shop, leaving national franchises with vast margins to up the slack...
...Sept. 23, the Bears-the last-place finisher in the Ivy League in 1999-shut the Crimson out in a stunning 2-0 upset. Yenne was held scoreless and no one else had picked up the slack. Harvard was now 2-0 in games when Yenne scored and 0-2 in the games she didn...
...closest friend is also a single mother, with two children. Together we've formed a new kind of extended family that takes up the slack left by our collective losses. I go to her children's football games and band concerts. She comes to my daughter's plays and piano recitals. On Sundays we get together for a family dinner. Sometimes her ex-husband joins us. We play games and music. We talk about school, sports and movies. I take my friend's son out for driving lessons in my jalopy. My friend challenges my daughter to a game...
...TANTALUS British theater titans Peter Hall and John Barton use the mythic Trojan War as the centerpiece of their adventurously scaled, sharply written satire of modern politics. This 10-hour marathon, which premiered in Denver, bristles with enough backstabbing drama to keep the slack moments...