Word: glide
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...know how Greenspan feels about reducing surpluses via additional spending - he doesn't like it. And that leaves tax cuts, which by halfway through the speech were an integral part of a budget strategy "that is consistent with a preemptive smoothing of the glide path to zero federal debt" and aimed at "making the on-budget surplus economically inconsequential when the debt is effectively paid...
...teacher, a wispy creature who reminds me of the adorable Icelandic pop singer Bjork, crouches effortlessly on one foot so that her rear end is nearly touching the ice while she simultaneously kicks the other leg straight out in front of her. She eases up from her elegant glide and with a big grin commands...
...sitting on two grips' heads between takes while the crew fiddled with the camera angles. She spent another marathon session hanging from a bar above the set, praying her hands didn't go numb before she dropped--"'catlike,' the director said"--into the frame. "'Then,' he said, 'You just glide over to the door.' I've never done this before! Dropping 6 ft. and not falling on my butt is an accomplishment...
Florida was supposed to be a day at the beach for Republicans this year. With Jeb Bush firmly enthroned as one of the nation's most popular Governors, his brother George W.'s presidential campaign would glide through the state like an airboat on the Everglades. And a Republican-controlled legislature--the first ever in the old Confederacy--would escort G.O.P. Congressman Bill McCollum into retiring Republican Senator Connie Mack's seat. Endorsing McCollum last month, Mack rapturously hailed "the good news for all Florida Republicans...
...greatest hardship for this fiercely independent man was becoming totally reliant on others. He needed Debbie to help him shower and dress, to bring him food. A stair glide was installed to enable him to go downstairs during the day, but he needed her assistance to hobble over to it and climb on. Debbie rarely left the house except to drive Dan to his medical appointments. In the last weeks before her husband died, she acknowledged without resentment that "I don't have a life. Everything revolves around...