Word: slide
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This has not diminished Carril's insatiable desire to win. He keeps a projector and game films both in his office and at home. Without fail, he will yell at a player on the screen to slide, say, two steps to his left or his man is going to drive past him for a basket. Then he yells at the image of the player for his failure to respond to his command. "The really funny thing," says Kit Mueller, who has attended many such sessions in the course of his education, "is that he will rewind the film...
Most of these systems use student identification cards with coded magnetic strips on the back. As students get meals, they slide the cards through special readers which are connected to a central computer that maintains records for every student...
...quick start, as well as a comeback, was a task that Harvard could not effectively perform last season. After rising as high as seventh in the nation, a six-game midseason slide left the Crimson at .500, with a lowly 2-4 mark in the Ivy League...
During the 1980s, the Japanese spoke of the "Triple Merits" that were driving the Tokyo stock market's extraordinary rise: a strong yen, low interest rates and falling oil prices. Now that the Tokyo market is on a rocky slide, investors have labeled the culprits the Triple Demerits: a weakening yen, growing inflation and rising interest rates. The triple whammy has sent the Nikkei index down nearly 15% so far this year. In one session last week the index dived 1,569 points, or 4.5%, the biggest one-day loss since the 1987 crash. The index lurched up and down...
...News, Burke was criticized not only for his handling of the Rooney affair but also for his aloof and uncommunicative management style. (Burke, head of one of the nation's leading news organizations, routinely turns down all press interviews.) He is also under pressure to reverse the ratings slide of the CBS Evening News. Yet CBS sources last week discounted reports that Burke's job was in jeopardy. CBS Broadcast Group chief Howard Stringer praised Burke for dealing with "a delicate and complicated issue with thoughtfulness and strength. He has my and this company's full support...