Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international sanctions leveled against India for its provocative tests. Polls showed that 70% of Pakistanis wanted their government to detonate its devices. At a defense seminar, an officer in Pakistan's powerful military told the Prime Minister, "The time to conduct a nuclear test is now," then projected a slide with NOW printed in large letters. And Sharif told Clinton, "I don't think I'll last in office more than two or three days if I don't make a test." As Sharif explained to TIME, "The outside world is not aware of the emotional feelings of the people...
...self-interest; the subtitle might well have been "how fund companies can avoid blame when the bubble bursts." But the basic message--that the market cannot keep going straight up--is a good one. Any stocks or stock funds that you can't hold through a 2000-point Dow slide you should sell...
...slide down slopes in fleece as white as snow...
When those portentous white envelopes slide underneath the doors of anxious first-years tomorrow morning, the randomization experiment will be nearly complete.... After the Class of '98 graduates, some of us will remember when the House had character, but none who lived with it intact will remain at the College...
That would be the end of a winning record for the Crimson, however. The slide down the winning ladder began with the team's trip to California in early October...