Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 11.5 million of them will find jobs of any sort. One reason is that, despite big draft calls and a booming economy, such perennial employers of student power as construction and retail trades are soft. Even political campaigns, which absorb many young volunteers, are not taking up the slack...
...sells it to Paramount which hires a fashionable director for a small fortune to make the movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously as an auteur...
...refreshed national leadership, Bob Kennedy sought publicly to invigorate American political and social thought. Like many Republicans, he questioned the efficacy of a burgeoning federal bureacracy. In the same breath, though, he infuriated the G.O.P., insisting that renovated, upgraded state and local government would have to take up any slack. His seemingly conservative outlook on federalism was shaped by a liberal goal--government-backed social and economic justice...
Loss of Confidence. Adding to the rising unease is a slack in the four-year economic boom that, beginning in 1962, thrust Spain into the 20th century world of rapidly rising industrial wages new cars and washing machines, The lull has created unemployment and put a brake on wage increases. Above , it has cost the government the confidence of many businessmen who had always staunchly supported Franco. The government gives the impression of not knowing quite what to do about either the economy or the popular unrest, and this impression is strengthened by the fact that Franco seems to spend...
PREP schools follow the colleges--especially Exeter and Andover, which feed more people into Harvard each year than any other school. Now the slack on the cultural lag has pulled tight for those two schools; and while they glimpse the development of political activism on their campuses, their students are trying out the tragi-comic scene of dropping, blowing, and shooting pot, acid, hash, speed, belladonna, sunflower seeds, airplane glue, freon, Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, Paragoric Pall Malls, Romilar, and Dr. Schein's Asmador Powder...