Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make much fuss about that--he's very discreet," said the course's instructor, Senior Preceptor Anne Slack. "He's very much like any other student...
Warren's area of expertise led him to study French. He began his study the fall of 1987, when Slack tested him and enrolled him in French F. Occasionally the work has been too much for his schedule; this fall he began French Hb, but had to stop because he did not have the time to do the classwork...
...Government study concluded, however, that if foreign supplies were cut off oil prices would quickly skyrocket, inevitably sending the economy into a tailspin. Because production takes years to gear up, the U.S. petroleum industry could not fully make up the slack of the lost imports. Says John Boatwright, Exxon's chief domestic economist: "It's not a garden hose you can turn...
...percent came from interest earned on the endowment (17.2%), private gifts (19.7%) and government and institutional grants (30.9%). As income from these sources has decreased as a percentage of total revenue over the past few years, Harvard has had to look to other places to pick up the slack. Moreover, the University's expenses have increased more than 180 percent, $558 million, since 1978. The inevitable, however unfortunate, result is that students must bear more of the burden...
...think the whole thing is self-discipline--disciplining myself to do things I don't necessarily want to," Hughes says. "Sometimes it's hard because you'll want to slack off, but [hockey's] such a commitment that you can't really afford...