Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE CONTRACTS will help U.S. planemakers take up slack from military-aircraft cutbacks. The latest: $65 million to Douglas for Saturn second-stage units; $50 million to Lockheed for 16 Agena-B rocket vehicles; $29.7 million to Boeing and Martin to start work on Dyna-Soar space glider. NASA space spending is expected to total $2.5 billion annually...
...Prince Albert I of Monaco, the great-grandfather of Free Diver Prince Rainier. Cousteau is also head of France's Underwater Research Center. He is backed in part by the French government, and in part by Washington, D.C.'s National Geographic Society, takes up the slack with profits from his business firms. In addition to controlling the Aqua-Lung patents, he runs on the side a film company, dubbed Associated Sharks as his own wry commentary on the ethics of the trade. Even so. Cousteau's wife has sold many a belonging to hold the spider...
Into Position. Pechiney is busily moving into position to take advantage of the Common Market. As Europe's standard of living rises, demand for Pechiney's chemicals and aluminum is bound to rise apace. When exports slack off, the company can always intensify its efforts to sell at home, where aluminum consumption is still low (7 lbs. per person v. 21 lbs. in the U.S.). When the domestic market slackens, it need only expand its export market. There, it sells aluminum at about 8% lower than U.S. and Canadian competitors...
Cleanly translated by Justin O'Brien, strikingly directed by Sidney Lumet, and with Kenneth Haigh giving an unstinting, unflinching performance in the title role, and Philip Bourneuf and others lending helpful support, Caligula yet falls short of the mark and too often goes slack...