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Spare capacity, or slack, can exert downward pressure on prices, and squeeze corporate profit margins.

Part of that thinking is the belief that artificial intelligence will be used to pick up some of the slack and automate more processes.

When Stefani picks her up for their trip she’s switches out in a slack hefty bag and the type of wig Swiatkowski disparages her screed.

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There are plenty of scrappy indie thrillers and international chillers that can pick up the slack outside of the glitzy domestic market, where Hollywood horror often gets lost in its own self-important sauce.

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As big banks adjusted to more stringent capital requirements and other regulations imposed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, private lenders increasingly picked up the slack.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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