Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard also played without a key player, junior tailback Kweli Thompson, who stayed home due to bruised ribs, but Hu picked up the slack by carrying the ball a career-high 38 times...
...People working under pressure tighten up; muscles cramp, shoulders hunch, necks get knotted -- further straining tendons and muscles. Deadlines, speedups and employee monitoring programs can exacerbate the trouble. RSI sufferers also must deal with the skepticism and resentment of co-workers (who may have to pick up the slack) and the knowledge that their productivity has been impaired. This can lead to a vicious cycle in which the victims are so worried about their jobs that they work even harder, making their hands and arms worse...
...panel members predicted that exports of everything from cars to computers will help keep U.S. jobs growing next year. That will be important to take up the slack created by the slowdown in housing construction as mortgage rates have climbed. The economists had little doubt, moreover, that foreigners are becoming very big buyers of American goods. "Most U.S. companies," said Jasinowski, "think their biggest growth opportunities are abroad...
...college- credit courses and then going out again to make evening visits to her patients. The couple's social life consists of an evening outing a month -- with the children. Young-Johnson doesn't complain, but she thinks it will not get better soon. "Everyone is picking up the slack," she says. "I don't want my kids to go without, so I just keep on pushing. The costs of everything keep going up. You're just going to keep working forever. I don't think it's going to get better...
Probably it works this way: after years of riding the Shetland pony across the | slack wire above the center ring, you begin to wonder if you could do it blindfolded. Sure, easy. But if the pony were blindfolded? If you were both blindfolded and you were juggling live electric eels? Something like this may have gone through Ed McBain's mind as this master began There Was a Little Girl (Warner; 323 pages; $21.95), his 80th or maybe 160th crime novel. Could he, for instance, just to make things interesting, write a thriller in which his hero gets shot...