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...finished 25-for-55 with 236 yards and three touchdowns to pick up the slack for a running attack that managed only 45 yards on the day. Brown caught 10 balls for 83 yards, and Keith Reams hauled in 9 catches for 79 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Bulldogs...
Even aerospace giant Boeing, which has a sizable defense division that should pick up some of the slack from its commercial jet business, said it will lay off as many as 30,000, or 15% of its work force, by the end of 2002. For most observers, it's no longer a question of whether we are in a recession but how long it will last. Mark Zandi, chief economist at economy.com calls the terror attacks "a disaster of nationwide proportions...
...historians and psychologists have lots of theories about how we got here, but some perennial truths persist: every generation thinks the next one is too slack; every parent reinvents the job. Parenthood, like childhood, is a journey of discovery. You set off from your memories of being a kid, all the blessings, all the scars. You overreact, improvise and over time maybe learn what works; with luck you improve. It is characteristic of the baby boomers to imagine themselves the first to take this trip, to pack so many guidebooks to read along the way and to try to minimize...
...capital or are discouraged from innovating, they don't build new businesses at home. And if there's no building, people can't get jobs or pay raises. Underemployed people don't shop much, so local retailers and consumer product companies suffer too, leaving nobody to take up the slack from sluggish exports...
...door dotcoms, it seems, either can't get enough customers, or get too many that spend too little (thus spending more on delivery costs than they make back on the sale of low-margin comestibles). If I have one clear vision of the future, it's of my slack-jawed grandchildren begging to hear again about what it was like to live in the height of the mythical door-to-door boom. Yes Virginia, you really could get a candy bar and a copy of Spartacus within minutes without stepping outside your front door. Of course, that was back before...