Word: slacking
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...slack off at all," Suurkask said. "It's great that we're playing teams that are fighting for playoff spots. It makes us fight and work harder. If we are going to win, we need to come with our best game...
...Saturday, Wente had the biggest game of his life, single-handedly keeping his team in the game. He had 22 points to lead all scorers, and picked up the slack left by players who had sub-par games, like guards Ahmed El-Nokali and C.J. Chapman...
Harvard binges less often than the rest of the nation, but true to common campus assumptions, athletes and final club members pick up the slack for the rest of the College...
...familiar scene: A man in his mid-30s waits outside a courtroom, his eyes dull, his posture slack. An attorney sits nearby, trying to ignite some optimism in his client - maybe it won't be so bad - but the man knows better. He knows because he's already tested the system so many times. He's been arrested with cocaine, heroin, marijuana, not to mention various and sundry pills. He knows he's betrayed pledges to get clean, and turned his back on years of rehab. Now it's time for him to pay his debt to society once again...
...Part of that is reviving that old Republican righteousness about how big a bite the federal government ought to take out of the people's paychecks. Part is reminding voters that their stock portfolios aren't picking up the slack anymore - hence the reminders about the sagging economy, and the cautious push to make the cut retroactive to the first of this year. And part is convincing Americans that with today's surpluses, what Clinton called the "failed policies of the past" - cutting the taxes of people who didn't really need the money - won't fail this time around...