Word: slackly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...basic fact should not be overlooked: farmers have never had the right to set a price for their products. Because of this, a laissez-faire approach to agriculture would soon result in economic and social bankruptcy, with vertically integrated food companies taking up the slack...
...stockbrokers, Mayday means nothing less than the abolition of the system that has enriched them in good times and pulled many of them through during long periods of market slack. What is more, negotiated-or "unfixed" -commissions will begin a drastic restructuring of the securities markets...
Advocating Slack. Last week, for example, Simon told Congress that its tax and spending policies will lead to a budget deficit of $80 billion in the fiscal year that begins in July, v. the $55.5 billion projected by the Office of Management and Budget. That is a real and worrisome possibility, but Simon's warning would carry more force if he had shown a keener and earlier appreciation of the need for vigorous action to pull the nation out of recession. Instead, Simon has insisted that "some margin of economic slack must remain for a period of years...
...danger is that the U.S. economy may have stumbled into a so-called liquidity trap-a situation in which economic activity is so slack that the Federal Reserve is unable to provide stimulus at will. Normally the board controls the money supply indirectly by altering the amount of reserves available to its member banks. The banks are required to count as reserves the cash in their vaults and a certain portion of their demand deposits-mainly checking accounts. They must place the portion of their deposits in non-interest-bearing accounts with the Federal Reserve. The board controls the amount...
...will build the YF-16s' $1.5 million jet engines. General Dynamics last year overtook Lockheed as the U.S.'s largest defense contractor (total 1974 sales: about $2 billion), but the order comes at a time when the company needs a long-term contract to pick up the slack caused by a dropoff in production of the costly ($16 million each) F-lll swing-wing fighter-bomber. The YF-16 also offers General Dynamics an opportunity to polish up a reputation that was scarred by the cost overruns and mechanical problems that clouded the F-111 in the late...