Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mason, "and the surgeon wasn't making any effort to explain to me what he was doing, and I was asking, 'Please let my interpreter come, please let her come explain to me what you gonna do?!' " Although federal law vouchsafes a right to interpreters, financially strapped hospitals often slide by with a minimum of service. Deaf AIDS patients nationwide are used to screaming, moaning and banging things just to alert hospital workers to their needs...
...forces driving the black market are so strong that nothing -- not public opinion, not political pressure, not the power of police -- has halted the tiger's slide toward extinction. Can international trade sanctions against Asian nations succeed where all else has failed? There is no guarantee. The tiger's plight reveals the limits of conservation efforts and raises disturbing questions about humanity's ability to share the planet with other animals. Says Elinor Constable, an Assistant Secretary of State who leads U.S. diplomatic efforts to help the tiger: "If the concerted efforts of the world cannot save the tiger, what...
Bill Clinton's Administration has proclaimed Asia "one of the most important regions for U.S. policy going into the 21st century." But recently U.S. Asia policy has taken a downward slide. Washington failed to persuade Japan to adopt tangible targets for opening specific segments of its market to more imports. Secretary of State Warren Christopher visited Beijing under a storm cloud of criticism from the Chinese, who accused the U.S. of interfering in their internal affairs by demanding human-rights improvements in order to continue granting China most-favored-nation trade status. And no sooner had Christopher returned home than...
...Faculty Council is] afraid that if they take this one step to make this committee they will slide down the slippery slope and form a concentration," Minority Student Alliance member Hyewon T. Chong '95 said in an interview. "I'm very disappointed...
Truffaut ends this introductory section of the film with a curious episode. Jules and Jim visit Albert (Boris Bassiak), an artist friend who shows them a slide of a sculpture of a woman found on an island in the Mediterranean. Inexplicably, Jules and Jim are captivated by the woman's enigmatic face, so much so that they travel to the island to see it in person...