The schools were open only in winter, the slack season of the farm.

"You can't measure success before the slack season and the end of the fiscal year," he said.

Winter is the slack season in the war zone.

Each year, from their home in Texas, where the slack season was winter, I hired these two men.

This is also a slack season for demand,' a Mumbai-based analyst said.

They were paying a pound a day each - fourteen pounds a week, and this is the slack season.

Jurgis had only about sixty dollars in the bank, and the slack season was upon them.

The first quarter is the traditional slack season.

The slack season is over earlier this year,' said an analyst at a large securities firm who declined to be named, citing company policy.

Many cowboys worked as firemen on railroads in slack seasons.

People think we have a slack season.

I suspect that had it been done during the slack season, his and F's positions would have been reversed.

At slack seasons, village life in India can appear to be sleepy, but usually villages are humming with activity.

These periods of time were called the "Slack Season" because the fishermen were not able to work.

Slack season in the criminal world?

India's slack season for gold, currently on, coincides with the monsoon when people generally don't like to hold weddings.

The leader had of course been bribed; and what he had started as a strike was nothing more than a lock-out during the slack season.

Of course, summer's the slack season.

Slack Season was an alternative rock band active in the 1990s from Gainesville, Florida.

After the summer, usually a slack season for Chinese commodity trading, the market is likely to discover the actual strength of demand for raw materials.

Last year was a rather slack season for vampires, as it was for supernatural horrors of all species.

A slack season came.

Mao also wanted to mobilize peasants to undertake huge water projects during the winter slack seasons in order to improve agricultural productivity.

The slack season!

Dark-faced rural residents throng around the Jokhang at this time of year (the winter slack season), prostrating themselves before it.