Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Melville sped his downhill slide...
...Councillor Jonathan S. Myers and Independent Timothy J. Toomey Jr. both did better than predicted, largely because of the vigorous, press-the-flesh campaigns they conducted. Cyr, on the other hand, was a projected shoe-in but let his campaign slide and nearly paid the price...
...addition, Associate Dean of the Faculty Candace Corvey presented a slide show of FAS's current financial status to the council. The show was intended to inform the council of the severity of the budgetary situation so they could better advise the dean, said the source...
...country at the fall of the Communist Party is giving way to resignation, despair and bitterness. The Keystone Kops behavior of the leadership is all too symbolic of the way in which the heroes of the August revolution, Yeltsin especially, have proved unable to stop the nation's slide into chaos...
...frightening economic slide keeps worsening, and no program to reverse it has been adopted or even formally introduced. There is some speculation that Yeltsin will declare a state of emergency this week, and he has huffed and puffed about drastic measures, including one freeing prices from state control. But he has not even spelled them out, much less introduced them. Meanwhile, his government and the Russian parliament have been unable to agree on whether to postpone local elections now scheduled for Dec. 8, and have left the jobs of prime minister and chairman of parliament vacant. "Russia's government...