Word: slacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eastern Europe remains a risky, often maddening place to do business. One of the first tasks of Western companies is to retrain local labor forces that grew slack under communism and lack disciplined work habits. Simple bookkeeping can be a major problem: East European companies have been taught to follow central plans, and know little about Western-style profit-and-loss statements. At the same time, Eastern Europe's infrastructure is woefully inadequate for modern industry and commerce. A recent study by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank estimated that the region would require 274,000 miles of new roads...
...approach to become today's prosperous graybeards. Many media watchers had recognized similar prospects for 7 Days, which in April won a National Magazine Award for general excellence. It was an ironic epitaph: the magazine had gone out of business one week earlier, citing low ad pages, a slack economy and a dearth of interested buyers...
...alien smuggling," says Robert Penland, who retired last month as the INS's assistant commissioner for antismuggling. "When he was deposed, there were 12,000 Chinese and 4,000 Cubans just stranded in the pipeline in Panama." Since then, other smuggling organizations have moved in to pick up the slack...
...frizzed-out dreamer has become the archetype of male genius. "Don't bother Daddy. He's busy working on the space-time continuum." Substitute "novel," "fast ball" or "takeover plan" for the end of that statement, and you have the image of the lone genius. Genius needs a little slack; we all want to be Einstein. In Western civilization, a man is not a man who is not stiff-arming some woman who wants a commitment and riding alone into the sunset to Do What He Must Do, leaving her behind to clean up -- and show up with hot soup...
Kramer then netted a second period hat trick, making the score 11-0 by the half. With such a commanding lead, it was easy for Harvard to slack off. And that is exactly what the squad...