Word: slide
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Above all, the slide of the dollar was symptomatic of a historic decline in its role. The dollar has been the world's major reserve currency since World War II, meaning that other countries use it as a means of payment and hold it in their treasuries as a secure store of value. Such universal respect for the dollar has made it the linchpin of global finance and greatly enhanced American prestige abroad. But with foreign governments steadily dumping dollars to buy yen and deutsche marks over the past decade, the U.S. currency now accounts for only about...
...third. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter spends four hours every morning cold-calling prospects, sometimes making a joking promise to suburban Philadelphia lawyers that if he loses, he won't come open a law office in their neighborhood. Phil Gramm has been traversing the country with a slickly produced slide show designed as much to intimidate opposing fund raisers as to shake the tree for himself. This week Bob Dole is preparing his third direct-mail drop in nearly as many months. And while candidates like to boast about the number of days they've spent in hurdling snowdrifts...
...play Coach Joe in intra-squad scrimmages. And, as every Harvard pre-med knows, being aggressive certainly helps. Our kids have a reputation around the league for using their 85-pound masses of flesh to bruise, sprain and bloody their opponents. At practice, they rehearse the slide tackles and body blocks on each other...
Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari began a hunger strike, demanding that his name be cleared of rumors that he allowed the coverup of an assassination. Salinas said: "It's a question of personal honor." The ex-president's downward slide began Tuesday, when his brother Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly plotting a high-level murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas...
...only when my sister coerced me into going to this "great class" she had taken that my outlook changed. Unsure and uncertain, I stumbled into "Warning! Hot Ice." Well, curiosity cured the cat this time. A long-time victim of step and slide boredom, I sensed a world opening to me as the music boomed into the studio and silenced the drone of Stairmasters. Warming up to Salt 'n' Pepa, the instructor told us to get ready to move...