Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offense, designated hitter Joe Mackey provided the power in the nightcap with four RBIs on a pair of singles and a sacrifice in three trips to the plate. Mackey continues to be the hottest hitter on the club, picking up much of the offensive slack...
Roth was the top point-getter on the team and clearly the slickest stick handler of the group, but he alone, or even with his linemates Bob Goodenow and Danny Bolduc, could not carry the team. Steve Dagdigian, Jim McMahon and Kevin Carr took up the slack when Roth's line was having an off night, as did the line of Jim Thomas, Leigh Hogan and Ted Thorndike...
Vavricka dropped in 15 points for the night and Steurer, a sophomore guard, finished with 16. Steurer, a super-smooth ballhandler and floor leader for the Tigers, shot 8-14 from the floor and took up the slack caused by the loss of classmate Armond Hill. Hill, a backcourt superstar, was recently declared academically ineligible for the remainder of the season...
...Hospital Administrator Larry Mclntyre, who developed the plan with the institution's chief of staff, Dr. Gustav Bansmer. "But there are other times when a lot of them are just standing around, so when we utilize that time there is no added cost." To take advantage of these slack periods, the hospital requires patients to make appointments in advance...
...what the balance between spending and revenues actually is, but by what it would be if the full-employment target were reached. Events in fiscal 1973 demonstrated how important a miscalculation can be. Partly because unemployment was higher than 4%, economists believed that there was a good deal of slack in the economy. The Government accordingly permitted a budget deficit of $14.3 billion in fiscal 1973, and it proved too much of a stimulus for an economy that was already straining close to its limits. The result: a burst of demand-pull inflation and a spate of shortages that forced...