Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meritorious service during the recent border skirmishes with Tanzania, handing out a seemingly endless number of "Distinguished Service Orders," "Military Crosses," and "Victorious Service Crosses." During the lengthy ceremony an elderly Asian fainted and was carted off to an ambulance, betel-nut juice dripping like blood from his slack mouth...
Economically, Nixon's budget policy is sound enough. Deficits of the size that the U.S. is running can be tolerated while there is still slack in the economy, as is the case now. As the nation moves toward fuller use of its resources, however, such large deficits could well be highly inflationary. The price for reducing the deficit to hold back inflation would be high: freezing or cutting social programs that may not always have been effective but are nonetheless directed at genuine and often pressing needs. At minimum, Washington would be shifting a heavy fiscal burden onto already...
...exporters in foreign countries have built up such extensive facilities to serve the U.S. market that they will hold their prices down despite dollar devaluation and suffer a profit squeeze rather than let those facilities lie idle. But Eckstein expects other sectors of the economy to take up the slack. Auto sales, including imports, should rise from 10.8 million this year to 11.2 million in 1973. Capital spending should be up about...
...detective in charge went through the motions of dismissing him. As the man turned to leave, the officer said casually, "By the way, that Vaughan Williams piece you played last week on television-was that his seventh symphony or his eighth?" The suspect stared at the detective for one slack-jawed moment. Then in disgust he threw up his hands and said, "Oh, hell...
...Slack said he feels computer psychiatry will greatly increase the availability of psychiatric care, especially among lower-income groups...