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Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.

His authority and influence over his coordinates broke down gradually.

We call them slack variables because they pick up the slack, so to speak; that is, they take on whatever values are necessary to create equalities (notice that each slack variable must be nonnegative).