Despite the impressive finishing, the game lacked finesse for long spells and McCormack almost capitalised on slack Wigan defending for a second time after latching on to a cross-field pass from Michael Turner, only for the striker to be halted by a desperate last-ditch slide from Emmerson Boyce.
(Charities have picked up some of the slack in rural communities across the world – companies like LunaPads, for example, launched Pads4Girls, a program that provides in-kind donations of menstrual products.
Reaching for a similar shelf of inspiration is Texas teen noir We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Metrodome, 15), the junior Jim Thompson mechanics of which tick along nicely enough until a slack finale.
Europe needs to stimulate demand in other ways too, mainly by cutting the member states some budgetary slack.
It's often up to student welfare officers to pick up the slack.
If you slack now, you'll find the mixture will really clump and curdle when you come to add the eggs.
England lost their grip once again on Australia's slippery middle order in a slack post-lunch session at the Sydney Cricket Ground, but there was some consolation in a feisty bowling performance as the clouds gathered later in the day, and no great surprise that it should be Ben Stokes who provided a sense of incision against the tail.
My university seems to rely on its recent graduates to pick up the slack from faculty on leave, perhaps because they are cheaper to employ than lecturers and still possess the valuable "Dr" before their name that lends credibility in the eyes of students.
And that really explains United's woes – the depth hasn't been there to pick up the slack.
It contains information about the sustainability of output and the degree of economic slack.
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