Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, in this particular history course, the professor succeeded in securing funds for a second section--five weeks into the semester--from a fund established to support innovative and/or small group teaching. A special fund should not be expected to take up the slack for a legitimate pedagogical aim--having small groups of students discuss the material in a larger lecture course...
...more than three years recently due to equipment failures, and Pilgrim, which has never operated at a level better than 50 percent of capacity since it opened in 1972, has been closed for repairs since 1986. Much more efficient alternatives exist and are ready to take up the slack of closing these plants according to energy conservation groups...
Harvard Coach Wayne Lem had to rely more on Burger and freshman Peri Wallace to pick up the hitting slack against a Princeton front line which featured several six-foot tall players...
...than a self-feeding economic contraction and recession? Actually, there isn't much dispute about this one. If the deficit were to come down, the Fed would gladly accommodate this "tight" fiscal policy with a "loose" monetary policy. Low interest rates would spur private investment to take up the slack in demand, and everyone would live happily ever after...
...season's main song-and-dance items, Ziegfeld and Winnie, are biographies with vapid books and recycled songs. The portrait of Showman Flo is slack and bland, the glimpse of Churchill in wartime likely to appeal only to those with nostalgia for buzz bombs. In the wings: mostly revivals, including Can-Can and Brigadoon. Bemoans Producer Cameron Mackintosh (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables): "It's Mausoleum Alley here." In part, the West End is the ironic victim of its own past successes. Fourteen shows now running in London have been playing for a year or more...