Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy needs. No more than 40,000 U.S. buildings of all kinds have solar devices, compared with 2 million in Japan and 220,000 (one-fifth of all homes) in Israel. Demand for solar units, which rose after the President's energy message a year ago, is now slack; the industry is troubled by some charlatans and rogues; manufacturers and contractors are confused by new regulations; and buyers are bewildered by on-again, off-again tax credits. As a result, a number of small manufacturing companies are close to bankruptcy...
...delightfully eccentric group of players, and a mammoth budget--courtesy of schlock-producer Frank Yablans. The movie fails not because it's so gory, and not even because DePalma cruelly lingers over the deaths of our favorite characters (although this is annoying), but because the storyline is so slack. Screenwriter John Farris has plotted the film with routine situations that are unworthy of the marvelous ingredients, and although DePalma has structured several dazzling sequences, loaded with bursts of subjective camerawork and rhythmically perfect editing, there are too many dead spots for the suspense to build properly...
...order to keep a Harvard education from becoming passive and slack, we must try to balance lectures with a constant counterpoint of papers, seminars, tutorials, and discussion sections where students must first make use of what they have read and heard by developing their own thoughts and then expose their work to the scrutiny of more mature minds. These are the experiences most likely to help students think more clearly and precisely yet it is these experiences that are most endangered across the country by huge enrollments and tight financial constraints...
...broad range of viewpoints and verbal freedom. The principle of a partisan, local, fractious, extremely diverse and decentralized press--a principle which survived from the first scurrilous debate on Federalism, through the Civil War, and into the 20th Century--has largely ceased to exist. Taking up the slack from the decline in newspapers, the nationally prominent magazines appeal to large readerships by cultivating only very vague political inclinations. Today we tend to think of the press's past partisanship in its worst aspects--sensationalism and news demagoguery--but fundamentally this was reflective of a healthy, democratic impulse. In any case...
Ginn said the slack in the popularity of law is being taken up in government and politics. The percentage of seniors choosing this field more than doubled over the previous year's class...