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Example sentences for: slack

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An essay argues that Boris Yeltsin is power-hungry, irresponsible, and unstable and that we should stop cutting him slack.
At the tide’s turn, the slack enables ships to pass the rapids before the flow builds up in the opposite direction.
But the annual Bermuda Arts Festival takes up the slack starting in January with a series of concerts, opera, plays, art exhibits, and other cultural events featuring performers and artists from around the world.
8 million, but the company says the bonus will not be enlarged to pick up the slack.
Senate conservatives, led by Jesse Helms, says the Times , don't want to pay too much of the total expansion bill, but European politicians, who need to cut their deficits to qualify for the Eurodollar, are not much inclined to pick up the slack.