Word: slid
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...example is Boeing, the largest U.S. exporter, which produces 60% of the world's commercial aircraft. Hobbled by U.S. defense cuts and a global slump in the airline industry, Boeing's 1993 third-quarter profits slid 45% from last year. In response, the company is cutting 23,000 jobs through mid-1994 while at the same time attempting to slash in half its 12-to-18-month delivery time for planes...
While Harvard slipped and slid around the field, Brown played the home filed advantage for all it could...
Trying to reverse this trend, Clinton struck notes ranging from passionate to pleading. Presenting the bill at a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Clinton began waving his arms and banging the lectern, first with a forefinger and then with a fist, as he slid into an ad-lib riff on the necessity for reform: the U.S., he cried, is "choking on a health-care system that -- is -- not -- working." The day after, in a speech to medical students and professors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Clinton sounded oddly supplicating: "Please help us," he implored...
...curiosities of Saturday's reading of the Mozart was a slightly uncoordinated set of slides that seemed to date the performance before its time. In his first playing of the main theme, Perlman slid the third pair of notes and was followed dutifully by Zukerman. However, in the recapitulation of the theme, Perlman also slid the second pair, and was not echoed by his partner...
...order of things upside down. The arrogant old conservatives of the L.D.P. lost the majority they had used to run the government unchallenged -- and almost unsupervised -- for 38 years. At the same time, the permanent and futile opposition, the Marxist-oriented Social Democrats, lost almost half their seats and slid further toward irrelevance. Both parties suffered their worst electoral showing ever...