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Word: slacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone will have to pick up the slack,"Higgins said. "We're looking to get consistent Dand consistent goal-tending. Last year we didn'tget consistent goaltending when we needed it. Iknow we shouldn't be number-one in the league. Wedon't have the depth. We're thin in numbers ofquality players. If we get a key player hurt,we're in trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . And the Bottom of the Heap | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

...There is no doubt that losing Char will hurt but no one is irreplaceable," junior Co-Captain Sandra Whyte said. "Everyone will have to pick up the slack to make up for the time she spent...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: Icewomen See (Big) Red On Way To Top | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

Worse yet, the SPR, unlike similar European reserves, contains 65 percent high-sulfur "sour" crude, which requires more sophisticated refining. With the takeover of Kuwait, the U.S. lost one of its primary refining centers. This means American refineries will have to take up the slack...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: When Good Politics is Bad Policy | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...like this, the Navy is supposed to be able to reactivate its mothballed fleet of transport vessels. It has ordered up 41 of them, but so far only 25 have got under way. The Navy last week was chartering 15 American and foreign cargo ships to pick up the slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Military Message | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...career performance, but crass materialism is on the wane. Marian Salzman, 31, an editor at large for the collegiate magazine CV, believes the shift away from the big-salary, big-city role model of the early '80s is an accommodation to the reality of a depressed Wall Street and slack economy. Many boomers expected to have made millions by the time they reached 30. "But for today's graduates, the easy roads to fast money have dried up," says Salzman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Proceeding With Caution | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

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