Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They'll pick up some of the slack, but the midfield will still be the key," Whaton said...
...only power but also stamina. At the National Sculling Center on the Occoquan River in Woodbridge, Va., Igor Grinko, a former Soviet rowing coach who now trains the U.S. team, has had American Keir Pearson doing 400 pulls on the oars with 200-lb. weights attached. "When we slack off," says Pearson, "Igor screams at us that Russian women can lift more weight than we can." Says Jonathan Smith, 31, a two-time Olympic medalist who is pushing for a third prize this summer: "The volume and amount of weight we're lifting is two to three times more than...
...irony in my eviction last week is apparent. I paid thousands of dollars for housing this year and was given very little slack by the house when I needed a place to live for a few extra days...
...produced only modest improvements in employment and earnings when tried by various states during the '80s. The chances of large-scale gains are especially dim at a time when more than 7% of all U.S. workers are jobless. "If you are going to have a workfare program in a slack economy, the whole program will collapse," says William Julius Wilson, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and an expert on poverty. "People will get training for employment, but if there aren't jobs out there, in the long term, it is just going to be self-defeating...
...second game, senior Tom Hurley picked up the slack and shut down the Tiger attack as Harvard turned the tables...