Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Children jumped on a gigantic, inflatable Gator Slide and Tiger Bounce...
...other hand, many of the passages that have been retained are remarkably beautiful, and the dialogues contain much prose of great lyricism and power. The directors have given greater depth to this effect by generating a changing "scenery": slide projectors are used to create a background featuring anything from photographs of tranquil natural scenes, suggesting the peace of New Park, to black-and-white photographs of young men long gone, to illustrate the memory one character is narrating to another...
...tighten interest rates at its next meeting three weeks from now, says TIME's Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "It's hard to remember the last time the markets reacted so eagerly to this report." Indeed, now that the Dow has almost completely erased the sobering slide that began March 11, the rest of the market seemed today to have to caught a euphoria that Kadlec called "incredible." Yields on 30-year Treasury bonds fell to 6.99 percent, the lowest in a month. NASDAQ rose 25.60 and AMEX...
...employees who wrestle with heavy caseloads, bad technology, long hours and growing threats to their safety, who find purpose in the bureau motto of "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity," can handle just about anything--anything but walking down the street and having a pal from the local police department slide up in his cruiser and ask mocking questions about all the cases the FBI has screwed up and all the headlines it's made and "Hey, what's the deal with this Whitehurst...
...theory points to HDTV. Last week the fcc approved HDTV guidelines that will make today's TV obsolete by 2006, forcing some 100 million consumers to upgrade to digital idiot boxes. Since each TV will include a Web browser and E-mail, the PC industry is worried about a slide in demand. Microsoft wants to make dead certain that if HDTV dominates the market for operating systems, the system you will be using is its--even if that means using Windows to watch Seinfeld instead of MS Word...