Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...documentary to be broadcast Thursday, Professor Jonathan Slack of the University of Bath in England tells how he manipulated the genes of a frog embryo to suppress growth of the tadpole's head and tail...
Your excellently researched article on serotonin drugs touched on a much larger picture. One of the curses of living in an advanced industrialized society is a growing propensity to deny responsibility for one's own health and happiness and expect material goods, science and technology to take up the slack. As long as overweight people pop pills instead of taking the stairs and psychiatrists prescribe chemicals, not introspection, mistakes like those made with Redux and fenfluramine are inevitable. Our evolutionary cousins continue to be tortured in the name of science. AMANDA WILSON New York City...
...morning after negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. The strike is expected to upset delivery service to thousands of businesses nationwide and will cost the company an estimated $50 million a day. Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service have made contingency plans to take up the slack, but say they may have difficulty handling the additional load. Adding to the delivery giant's difficulties is a promise by 2,000 UPS pilots to join the strikers. And with President Clinton virtually ruling out federal intervention, it could be a long time before the dispute is settled...
...covering only UPS employees. The Teamsters are also pressing management to increase pay, limit subcontracting and create more full-time jobs. If the talks break down again, millions of parcels across the country could be stranded. Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service are preparing to take up the slack, but say it may be difficult to handle UPS' volume of 12 million parcels and documents...
...Clintons deserve a lot of credit for how normally daughter CHELSEA has turned out despite her fishbowl upbringing, but her Secret Service detail also deserves a nod. CHELSEA is very sensible in cooperating with her agents, and in turn they cut her enough slack so she can manage a normal teenage life, like strolling with a date out of their earshot. The agents have been specially trained to work with her age group, and "It works really well," says a White House insider. So after Mom and Dad finish moving her in, maybe Stanford will turn...