Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only two of the seven, the Times and the Daily News, consistently make money. And by publishers' standards, the timing of New York's strike could not have been worse. Only a few months after the papers got back into print, they faced the summer doldrums, that slack vacation period when both circulation and advertising fall as shops close, Broadway burns dimly, and cliff dwellers by the thousands quit the town...
...DOWN UNDER. Healthy in New Zealand, Anglicanism in Australia is a faith gone limp and slack with too much success. In New Zealand it is by far the nation's largest church, and in Australia it can claim a healthy 33% of a growing population. Yet Australia still looks back to England for its archbishops, and has been sluggish in ministering to postwar waves of non-British immigrants. Now Anglican hegemony is threatened by immigration-fed Roman Catholicism. Admits one Aussie priest: "We've been lazy, resting on our oars. But the nasty things that will be said...
...Argentina's exports. But since then, overproduction of beef by British farmers has forced a sharp cutback of nearly 20% in British buying. Fortunately for the Argentines, other European customers and newly opened markets behind the Iron Curtain and in Egypt, Israel and Portugal are taking up the slack...
...most radical competitors for Negro allegiance, the Black Muslims, have become popular partially because of their emphasis on self-improvement programs. The demand for militance obscured the need for the NAACP itself to prepare Negroes for work in an industrial and rapidly automating economy. Because the current slack in the economy has created intense competition for jobs, the problems faced by the Negro worker are more formidable than just discrimination. Just or not, the civil rights organizations are going to have to assume a large part of the responsibility for finding jobs for Negroes and training them for the work...
...office, away from those protective family ties, Dad is visualized as a slack-jawed spendthrift with a will of tin foil. Loving ones may keep him out of expensive restaurants with a $4.25 Executive Lunch Bag (including place mat and matching napkin). There is also a do-it-yourself shoeshine kit for $5.95, disguised as a statusful French phone, with a hand bank built in to hold the money the man saves for his family with his elbow grease. And to help the will-less fellow cut down his smoking, there is a cigarette case with a time lock that...