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...Peljto’s game faltered, Cserny was there to pick up the slack. Notching 17 points and three rebounds, there were moments when she dominated the game. With 3:24 left in the first half, Cserny simply took the ball from Princeton point guard Allison Cahill and proceeded down the court for an easy layup...

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stingy Defense Lifts W. Hoops Over Princeton | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...meet, the saber squad faltered a little,” Bei added. “But the epee squad came through and picked up the slack...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Fencing Sweeps MIT Tourney | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...Which brings us to the big caveat: Just as housing has taken up much of the economic slack for the past two years, both as a comforting investment for fretting consumers and a driver of consumer spending itself, a big bump elsewhere in the economy in 2003 could be housing's downfall. If stocks roar back this spring, capital inflows could steal from the bond market, pushing up long-term interest rates. Or Alan Greenspan and the Fed could do the same to short-term rates, as a way to hit the brakes on a recovery that is heating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing Looks Built to Last | 1/28/2003 | See Source »

...narration--nothing. It begins in medias res, as though you had just stepped out for a few seconds to get more popcorn. If you didn't see last year's The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson, the trilogy's wizardly director, isn't about to cut you any slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lure Of The Rings | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

Aquaculture was supposed to pick up the slack. It's already the world's fastest-growing food industry, with production increasing more than 10% a year. Farmed fish and shellfish supply 30% of all the seafood consumed worldwide today, up from 10% two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish Farming: Fishy Business | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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