Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worth: their simple gold wedding bands. The rings, buffed free of inscriptions, fill a black velvet tray. Dozens more crowd a shelf in the vault. Over the past five years, more than 1,000 miners and their wives have come here to slip off their rings and slide them silently across the narrow glass counter. They walk away with a $15 loan and a claim stub. In time, their rings are shipped in bulk to a smelter in North Carolina, where they are melted down -- as disposable as they once were valued, not unlike the miners themselves...
With last week's victory, the Crimson dramatically recovered from its four-game slide, erasing virtually all the problems--the fourth-quarter collapses, shaky defense, tempermental offense--that plagued it before...
...season long (most notably against Fordham), Hirsch has demonstrated that he is a versatile offensive weapon. He can rush along the sideline and barrel through opposing lines. On the next down, he can slide into the flat and grab a ball with skill and poise...
...given the recent history of pop superstardom (e.g. Tiffany), it's a good bet that Ice's career is over. He probably could retire on the royalties of "Ice Ice Baby" and go silently into the Miami night, but he won't. Instead we will have to watch him slide painfully from one failure to another: first a failed movie, then a failed album, then a failed comeback, in ever-gaudier clothes, with ever more complicated hair...
...women do not yet meet on what is exactly a level playing field. Nine times out of 10, it's the male who has the power, the female who must flatter, cajole and make a constant effort to please. If she turns him down, her career may begin to slide. She won't get the best job assignments. He might not be around when she needs help someday -- as Hill apparently did -- in getting a job or a grant...