Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Munro, expected much out of the soccer team when the season began. For all practical purposes, the team seemed doomed way back last Spring, when Bent Hinze and Dragon Vujovic came to a parting of the ways with Mother Harvard, leaving only Felix Adedeji to take up the scoring slack. With Adedeji sitting out the last six games with a twisted knee, Munro has to dig deep into his bag of tricks to produce a winner...
...second idea under study is to change the investment tax credit−which currently allows businessmen to write off 7% of their expenses for new capital equipment−to flexible levels, varying from 3% to 15% of such investments. Again, the idea is to stimulate the economy in slack periods by letting firms deduct a big chunk of their new investments, and to slow it down in overheated times by withholding the credit privilege almost entirely...
...minutes at tackle last year has moved into the middle, and he and Culig are vying for the top spot. Culig has the know-how but may be hindered by size. He's only 5 ft. 10 in. and 200 pounds. If neither of these two picks up the slack at center, Restic will be forced to move Manna from tackle, which would throw the tackle slot into confusion. Prospects for CENTER: QUESTIONABLE...
...years, despite the introduction of many labor-saving devices during that period. Actually, Vanek found, the new appliances did save women time in specific routine tasks such as food preparation and laundry. But most of the women had apparently invented new kinds of housework to take up the slack: gourmet cooking, the direction of children's play, household management and shopping...
...baron and bawdyhouse piano player, Milius proclaims the glories of guns, the beauties of blood lust and the masculine honor of big money. Affectation like this makes good copy and, judging from Dillinger, bad movies. Instead of the brash and abrasive effort that might have been expected, Dillinger is slack and derivative. Its main inspiration is Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, both in its ideas (outlaws as folk heroes, mythic celebrity as the ultimate reward of the criminal life) and its images (bloody faces pressed against car wind shields, lovers in a field shaded by a cloud passing...