Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party's rightward slide was signaled three weeks ago when Russian Communists chose Ivan Polozkov, the hard-line party boss of the southern Krasnodar region, as their standard bearer. The right-wing political coup appeared to have caught Russian party reformers by surprise. They had clearly underestimated the depth of resentment in local party organizations with everything from political change in Eastern Europe to schemes for converting military assembly lines to the production of consumer goods...
...principal bidder for the PTL cable network looked to be evangelist Oral Roberts, whose career has had more ups and downs than the water slide at the now defunct theme park. It has been mostly downs since he launched his desperate give-millions-lest-I-die fund-raising drive in 1987. In the past year the Tulsa televangelist has laid off 10% of his staff and folded his cherished City of Faith hospital and medical school. In search of a more promising venture, Roberts decided to take a bold gamble and offer $6.5 million to obtain PTL's cable...
...ceremony also included a slide presentation of protests in Beijing, a minute of silence and a recorded message by Wang Chaohua, a student who was arrested in the Tienanmen protest and escaped...
...slide in the contemporary market -- the junk bonds, as distinct from the Impressionist blue chips -- is not helped by the fact that some of the biggest buyers of former years, like advertising mogul Charles Saatchi, are now strapped for cash and have turned into sellers...
...will go. It gets heavier as we go over in a roll to intersect the geometry of the other plane's evasive maneuver. The gravity force is building up again, and the plane begins to buffet. I've used up too much energy, and we slide down, missing another chance to line up a shot. The earth comes spiraling up at us as we regain airspeed. Too late. The enemy is on me now, and I'm in his gunsight. ("Lose sight and you lose the fight. You can't shoot what you can't see," Blackstone had warned...