Their bodies slackened from hunger, and beards covered their faces like jungle growth.
The chilies had slackened from grilling and fell into silky strands.
Sadly, the pace of sales of state-owned firms has slackened, from 254 deals in 1997 to 19 in 2001.
Still, most online stores left in business are hardly shrinking; their growth has merely slackened from a torrid pace.
Google's paid clicks during the third quarter climbed 17 per cent from last year, slackening from a 25 percent year-over-year increase in the previous quarter.
However, industrial production fell in South Africa by 3.6%.In Brazil, consumer-price inflation slackened from 15.1% in the year to September to 14.0% in the year to October.
Australia's treasurer, Peter Costello, noted in a radio interview this week that Australia's economy had slackened from the buoyant conditions of the late 1990's.
In the last quarter of 2006, according to Containerisation International, a trade journal, freight rates fell by 8% compared with a year earlier, as supply rose and demand growth slackened from 13% in 2006 to about 11% this year.There are some 4,000 box-carrying ships afloat today and another 1,300 have been ordered.
In the past, the maker of that film, Hu Jie, has described being visited by state security agents who asked about his work, yet, in a sign of how China's control of filmmaking has slackened from a decade ago, Hu has continued to make films.
