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...same time, responding to the high prices and consumer boycotts, U.S. coffee drinkers reduced their consumption by 17% in the past year. Slack demand and the prospect of heavy harvests have driven down futures prices on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. Contracts for coffee beans to be delivered in July fell to $1.95 last week, a drop of $1.45 a Ib. since April...
...failure of the University search committee to name a successor in the nine months since he announced his retirement made it necessary to stay on to "take up the slack" in the Department of Athletics, Watson added...
...Elizabethan costumes, topped off by sundry apple hats, Fred Barton's Launce cuts the incongruous figure of a country bumpkin crossed with a New England preppie. Attired in billowy corduroy knickers and some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets on the way to the ale house, and Speed makes...
...temperate and colder climates are now including wall and ceiling insulation, but much of the country's existing housing stock lacks proper protection. That may make it difficult for newhouse buyers to get rid of their old ones. Although it picked up last month, multifamily construction has been slack as the market continues to absorb a glut of new building of that type completed during the early 1970s...
...periods during the bitter winter just ended. Power shortages might well close factories and schools and black out homes in the Pacific Northwest next winter, because a prolonged drought has curtailed hydroelectric power production and utilities have not built enough coal and nuclear power plants to take up the slack...