Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secretary thought they knew Mark Barton when he walked into the Atlanta office of All-Tech Investment Group last Thursday afternoon. They greeted the day trader by name, and he commiserated with them over the news lighting up every trader's terminal: the Dow's nearly 200-point slide. He seemed to be the old client they were familiar with. No one knew that Barton was packing two handguns; that on Tuesday he had murdered his wife, on Wednesday his son and daughter; that he had just been at the building across the street, at another brokerage, Momentum Securities, where...
Just in case a family does manage to acquire the right number of cards with the right amount for their family to reach a desired destination, D.C. puts up one more obstacle. To enter a station's gates, one must slide the card into a slot with a precise force. Tourists, much to my amusement and their dismay, are usually unable to perform this task with grace. Harried Hill workers tend to groan at these naive masses to just get through the gate or get out of the way, but I think the scene is kind of endearing...
...strides in gaining parity in politics and sports, it is in the workplace that sexism is most keenly felt. Women still earn 75% of men's salaries and occupy only 11.2% of the executive jobs in FORTUNE 500 companies. The top spot at HP, a geek kingdom since the slide-rule era, is the highest position ever held by a woman in a Dow 30 company...
China, however, won't likely disappear as a flash point. Bush plans to slide-tackle the Administration for placing relations with Beijing ahead of those with the U.S.'s Asian allies. Last week Condoleezza Rice, Bush's top foreign policy adviser, took a swing at Clinton for bypassing Tokyo en route to a summit in Beijing last summer: "You wouldn't see the Governor go to China for nine days and not go to Japan and South Korea." It was an opening shot in what promises to be a sustained and challenging salvo for Gore...
...following the bombing, but its objective is a lot more than securing more favorable terms for entry into the World Trade Organization," says Dowell. "It wants the U.S. to acknowledge China?s importance on the international stage, particularly in the Asian region." And that?ll take more than a slide lecture by a U.S. diplomat on the foibles of Washington?s strategic mapmakers...