Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspicion must exist, of course, that the constant emphasis on corruption is like those "crime waves" that newspapers used to discover in slack periods when no other story dominated the head lines. Any story with however tenuous a "Watergate angle" has a better chance of making the front page. In this effort, journalism may have had a collaborator in Richard Nixon. Indeed, as the notes on those 18 minutes of missing tape show, the White House's first response to Watergate was to invoke public relations to "top" the embarrassing news: "We should be on the attack - for diversion...
...terminology is so slack in this area that it grants the president virtually dictatorial powers," Norton added...
...over: the Alaska North Slope oilfield had just been proved and was expected to be powering cars by 1972, drilling had started on a large offshore field in California's Santa Barbara Channel, and coal production was still going strong and was expected to take some of the slack from oil. Within months, all the promises were reversed: environmentalists stopped the Alaska pipeline, which was only recently given final go-ahead; a giant oil spill forced a shutdown of the Santa Barbara fields; and environmental and safety laws slowed coal production. "Everything that could go wrong did go wrong...
Marion looks for his foil and epee units to pick up the sabres' slack. Foilers Howard Weiss and Phillipe Bennett, both returnees, have both experience and excellent style...
...playing while injured: cornerkicking, throwing in, and applying defensive pressure at the midfield to break up Yale's attack before it reached the 50-yard line, Mario Gobbo and Tony Van Neil both saw limited action due to injuries and LaCivita was forced to pick up much of the slack...