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...going to have to pick up the slack," blue-liner Brian Popiel said. "We'll probably be a little sluggish after this weekend, but the fact that the Garden's rink is so small should help us. We won't have to run around as much...
...football scoreboard. For reasons still being investigated, a computer in New York City had come to believe it was overloaded with calls, and it started to reject them. Alerted to New York's troubles, dozens of backup computers across the U.S. automatically switched in to take up the slack -- only to exhibit the same bizarre symptoms. People trying to place long-distance calls all over the world suddenly began to hear busy signals and recorded messages blandly informing them that "all circuits" were busy...
...feeling, an acid sense of humor and a vigilant eye for nuances of love and indifference, language, landscape and class behavior. It is not a young man's (or a moralist's) book. But it is intensely moving and contains, in its winding and ironic cadences, not a slack sentence: a performance in a difficult key about the making of a near extinct kind of European...
...most disturbing fact is that no one knows how severe the problems may be. In a report to Congress last month, the General Accounting Office described the same pattern of sloppy accounting and slack Government supervision that allowed the S&L debacle to go unchecked. Because many agencies kept such poor books, GAO auditors could not even determine how much of the $5 trillion is at risk of default. "The ignorance, incompetence and corruption in many of the Government loan and loan-guarantee programs are appalling," says Dingell...
...placing a reserve, or minimum, on each lot, as is more usual. This enabled Sotheby's to meet the bottom line by selling 15 out of 44 impressionist and modern paintings far under its low estimate, rather than not sell them at all -- and gamble on making up the slack over the next three days...