Word: skid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Callahan is questionable for Saturday's game against Fordham. The Crimson has never faced the Rams and could use its Captain's blocking talents to reverse its two game skid...
...boys sit in a county jail not far from skid row, tans fading, while their lawyers battle over whether prosecutors can introduce tapes or notes of confidential conversations between the Menendez boys and their psychotherapist. A lower court ruled the tapes were admissible, but the California Supreme Court stayed the decision and is expected to issue its ruling next month. So far, crime fans and predatory screenwriters waiting to learn how the story ends have had to content themselves with a steamy drama playing outside the courtroom, as the details emerge about how police knew to look for those tapes...
...Detroit rising oil prices could worsen the skid that the U.S. auto industry has suffered since the start of the year. The price increases threaten sales of profitable but fuel-thirsty vans, pickup trucks and full- size cars, including the Chevrolet Caprice and the Lincoln Town Car. That would mean further woes for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which temporarily shuttered 45 of their 62 U.S. and Canadian plants and fired or laid off 38,000 workers during the first half of the year...
...Connor spent the night in Balboa Park, not to take the air beneath the palm fronds but to sample the life of homeless people. In jeans and baseball cap, she watched a series of drug deals go down. She spent a second night among more vagrants at a skid row mission. Throughout most of her 48 hours on the streets, she went unrecognized -- until Sister Raymonda, a nun who has known the mayor for years, spotted her resting on a bench reading the paper and whispered, "If you want to conceal your identity, you should remember that homeless women...