Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Veterans Rvan Lamppa, Noel Seidmore and Peter Johnson provide considerable depth McCurdy can rely on them to pick up the slack when he needs to use his all American trio in other events...
...spite of the depth we have this year in the lower weights, we will need the latecomers to pull up the slack of the 177 and 190: without them we will just be giving away too many points," Lee said earlier this week...
...freshmen seem able to pick up whatever leadership slack left by the exodus of upperclassmen from the squad. Walsh noted that the "the freshmen are leaders; they're not waiting for upperclassmen to lead them...
...that economic disruption can be avoided no matter what steps the nation takes. But the best hope for avoiding real trauma is to cut consumption, conserve supplies and, at the very least, make do with 700,000 bbl. less of crude per day. Such an effort would put some slack in worldwide petroleum supplies and help restrain prices. More important, it would also show Iran and the world that the U.S. can start breaking its addiction to the demon...
...fight unemployment. A higher level of joblessness is tolerable today because so many more people are at work, and thus, if one family member loses his or her job, there is a better than 50% chance that another family member is collecting a paycheck and can take up the slack. This is a reason why the Federal Reserve Board felt prepared a month ago to put on extremely tight credit clamps, risking a jump in unemployment just as a recession appeared to be developing...