Word: slide
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Clinton's other insight involved insurance. "We all make mistakes and hit rough patches," he says. "If you have a detailed program that causes people to believe you have a core, then when you make mistakes or have to account for past ones, they will let it slide. They'll even let you add two-and-two to five now and then. If you can't point to some heft behind you as a cushion, the voters think you're just the sum of your advisers' rhetoric and that you can't even get that right. That...
...huge debts during his half-year tenure as CEO, forcing the company into involuntary bankruptcy. The studio's chief lender, the French bank Credit Lyonnais, pumped in $145 million to restore solvency but demanded his ouster. The Delaware judge agreed, condemning Parretti's mismanagement of the firm. The downward slide continued on Dec. 27, when Parretti was arrested and jailed in Sicily on tax-evasion charges...
...point, the Wolverines won 10 straight games to claim the No. 1 ranking in the country, but as of late, they have faltered--only managing to win one out of their last four games coming into this year's tournament. Included in the recent slide was a disheartening 10-0 clobbering at the hands of Lake Superior State...
There is yet another kind of rethinking of Mary going on. Protestants see no biblical basis for praying to her for favors, and they believe veneration of her can slide into worship that is due to God alone. They also reject the idea that human beings, Mary included, can contribute to humanity's salvation. Nonetheless, some Protestants are softening aspects of their hostility. Church of England theologian John Macquarrie has proposed revisions of such dogmas as the Assumption of Mary into heaven, which could then be seen as a symbol of the redemption that awaits all believers. Theologian Donald Bloesch...
Although they came within one win of the Super Bowl two years ago, the loss to the 49ers signaled the beginning of the Rams' slide. Their two-year slump has been team-wide...