Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long been seeking "greater liquidity"-meaning large amounts of international reserves that could be borrowed by such big trading nations as Britain to avoid periodic crises of the pound. Such an international reserve system, said Macmillan, would enable the whole Atlantic community to increase trade and to ride out slack periods. Both Macmillan and Kennedy agreed that much of the U.S.'s recent gold drainage was due to an imbalance in interest rates between the U.S. and Britain, which caused U.S. dollars to flow to Britain in search of higher interest. Their conclusion: such problems should be better coordinated...
Like a King. In slack moments, the paparazzi manufacture incidents: one of their number taunts a show business idol into arm-flailing rage, and bulbs flash. The practice has a sound commercial basis : Italian newspapers and magazines pay as little as $5 for paparazzo portraits of quiescent celebrities; pictures of celebrities rampant bring as much...
...TIME cover, March 3), served up a batch of statistics designed to show that "structural" unemployment is relatively unimportant compared to "cyclical" unemployment resulting from the recession and from the "chronic slack" in the economy...
...profound sense of repose. The amalgam of qualities made her fourth act aria D'amor sull'ali rosee a dramatic as well as a technical triumph. It was perhaps the most wildly applauded moment of the present Met season-a season made somewhat lackluster by several dull, slack productions but rendered memorable by what seemed like a new age of brilliant singers, most notably Birgit Nilsson, triumphant in Turandot, and Soprano Price herself...
...island, the waves washed up a rusty but seaworthy 50-gallon drum. Placing the drum in the open center of his 6-ft. by 8-ft. raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve as reins. Then, straddling the drum like a maritime bronco buster, he shoved out to sea under the blazing Caribbean sun. To fight his mounting thirst he took rare, tiny sips of sea water, and when he could fight off sleep no longer, he would slump over his barrel. After...