Word: slackly
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...historians and psychologists have lots of theories about how we got here, but some perennial truths persist: every generation thinks the next one is too slack; every parent reinvents the job. Parenthood, like childhood, is a journey of discovery. You set off from your memories of being a kid, all the blessings, all the scars. You overreact, improvise and over time maybe learn what works; with luck you improve. It is characteristic of the baby boomers to imagine themselves the first to take this trip, to pack so many guidebooks to read along the way and to try to minimize...
...capital or are discouraged from innovating, they don't build new businesses at home. And if there's no building, people can't get jobs or pay raises. Underemployed people don't shop much, so local retailers and consumer product companies suffer too, leaving nobody to take up the slack from sluggish exports...
...door dotcoms, it seems, either can't get enough customers, or get too many that spend too little (thus spending more on delivery costs than they make back on the sale of low-margin comestibles). If I have one clear vision of the future, it's of my slack-jawed grandchildren begging to hear again about what it was like to live in the height of the mythical door-to-door boom. Yes Virginia, you really could get a candy bar and a copy of Spartacus within minutes without stepping outside your front door. Of course, that was back before...
...collapse of investment leaves it to U.S. consumers to take up the economic slack. They have done that so far despite a tech-stock implosion that has reduced household wealth and caused ceaseless price gyrations on Wall Street. Consumer spending has contributed some 90% of GDP growth in recent quarters. And consumers stand to get a big boost from what Berner calls "the most stimulative set of economic policies that we've seen in two decades"--a reference to the tax cut and the five interest-rate reductions the Fed has made since January. While tax rebates in the past...
...Sept. 23, the Bears-the last-place finisher in the Ivy League in 1999-shut the Crimson out in a stunning 2-0 upset. Yenne was held scoreless and no one else had picked up the slack. Harvard was now 2-0 in games when Yenne scored and 0-2 in the games she didn...