Word: slid
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Ponomarenko, trained at the famous Vaganova Institute in St. Petersburg, was a spectacular Giselle. Technically flawless and undaunted by her emotionally exhausting role, Ponomarenko slid from artless innocence to rapturous love and painful disillusion with astounding authenticity and poignency...
North Korean diplomats have exasperated Americans since the Korean War, when the top U.S. armistice negotiator denounced them as "treacherous savages." Last week U.S. diplomats felt much the same as the third round of talks in Geneva to halt Pyongyang's nuclear-development program not only stalled but slid backward...
Tuesday's second set opener was one of its highlights. The jam and transition out of "China Cat Sunflower" was quintessential Grateful Dead--rocking, but more importantly, energetic and exciting. The jam found its climax and then slid into an excellent "I Know You Rider." "Women Are Smarter" followed and kept the energy going with its bouncy, danceable rhythm...
Fidel Castro's envoys did their best to slide his main complaint across the bargaining table, but the U.S. negotiators slid it right back. After seven days of talks in New York City, the Cubans had to settle for what the Americans offered in the first place: a narrow agreement on immigration. They got nowhere on the issue that Castro blames most for his economic problems: the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo. The deal sealed in New York last Friday amounted to a simple swap: the U.S. will take in at least 20,000 legal Cuban immigrants each year...
...most sectors of the economy are tottering; workers are mostly unpaid. Poor people are inventive, goes a Russian proverb, and the poorer they are the more inventive they become. Among the most aggrieved are the 100,000 workers employed in national nuclear plants and laboratories, whose salaries have slid to $100 a month -- or no pay at all for months at a time. So almost anything is for sale. Last year Russian police acknowledged thwarting 11 attempts to steal uranium from nuclear installations...