Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pages, this means King will have graced his fans with a total of 1,755 pages of fiction in less than 12 months. By way of comparison, you can get a standard-size, paperback King James Version of the Bible that tallies only 1,112 pages--a pretty slack job considering the Bible's authors had a number of centuries in which to crank it out (although in fairness to Moses, Jeremiah, Matthew, Mark et al., it must be pointed out that King's books are printed in somewhat larger type than theirs...
...savvy Gen-Xiness the next time she gets in front of the camera. The self-deprecating comic and star of the film The Truth About Cats & Dogs is tackling her first dramatic role in the gritty upcoming movie Copland. She will play a police officer who'd better not slack. Her partner? Sylvester Stallone...
Even if the Department of Defense allowed campuses some slack in ROTC admission policies, Goldfarb said that the program could not return to Harvard because the instructors must be on Harvard's faculty
...welfare proposal largely resurrects Ronald Reagan's controversial (and unenacted) "new federalism," putting $50 billion yearly in food stamps, nutrition programs and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) under state discretion, while the Federal Government pays state Medicaid costs. To help local charities pick up any slack, Alexander would offer a $500 tax credit for every American to give to the group of their choice. The idea is to rekindle the personal involvement that G.O.P. virtuecrats like William Bennett say made for more "effective compassion" before Uncle...
...most economists still expect continued growth this year--and they do--that is partly because they think the Fed will cut interest rates some more. They further expect business spending for new plant and equipment and strong export sales to take up slack from consumers. Also, says economist Bernard Weinstein of the University of North Texas, "you don't have a recession in an election year...