Word: slacks
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...brief moment kozmo.com diverted our attention from the degradation of our community—from landlords who care more about lining their pockets and kowtowing to suburbanites than they do about preserving those establishments that give the Square character, from University officials who see no need pick up the slack by catering to students’ needs from within the walls of Harvard itself. Perhaps it is time that we protest, not the loss of Kozmo, but the loss of our community. Perhaps we should do so before the College is filled with students too young to realize that something...
...office while their wives have had children, yet they are almost never asked how they will balance their job responsibilities with the needs of a new family member. Even in this day and age, it’s assumed that a woman will be there to pick up the slack...
Yale did keep the Crimson's hottest hitter, junior third baseman Nick Carter at bay throughout most of the game and the weekend. But the rest of the Harvard order more than picked up the slack. In the win Saturday, Shakir alone supplied five RBI out of the ninth hole...
...Goodheart, muscle testing is the diagnostic gold standard. He prods and palpates patients head to toe, searching for tiny tears where muscles attach to bone. These tears feel, he says, like "a bb under a strip of raw bacon." When "directional pressure" is applied, the bb's flatten, and slack muscles snap back, their strength restored...
Thus we have a strange situation in the lecture halls of many science classes: an overly qualified student body and an under-qualified pool of teachers. What results is largely a product of the drive of many of these science students; they pick up the slack. When given a sub-par teacher, as they often are, they make up for the inability of teachers to impart knowledge by reading supplementary books, studying with other students, getting tutored, going to a section-leader’s office hours—whatever it takes. The drive toward knowledge and the almost infinite...