Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...photos of Nancy Irwin enjoying the experience of having 60 22-gauge needles threaded into her back. Her accompanying letter proclaims the "mutual trip" of the event, describing how one of her friends held her hands and "laughed at me while I screamed" while the other "didn't just slide [the needles] under the skin. She went for the meat!" Irwin also notes that once the sixty needles were secure, the group enjoyed tea in the living room...
Within a week of the trip to Moscow, the President's Russia policy had collapsed. Russia's slide is not, mind you, a failure of Clinton's personal diplomacy. There are limits to personal diplomacy. (Something politicians often have difficulty recognizing: "Lord," said Senator William Borah after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, "if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.") Personal diplomacy cannot reverse the trajectory of a great power. Russia's retreat is an aftershock of the December elections in which the totalitarian parties campaigning against reform and for empire won about...
...question all this raises is ominously familiar. Russia embraces reform more in theory than in practice. The nation needs a leader with the skills for the inglorious task of building institutions brick by brick, compromise by compromise. But the latest accumulation of electoral miscalculations and slide to the right makes people wonder whether Yeltsin is that...
...North American plate to the east, which is moving in the opposite direction. Most of the time, in most places, the two plates are snagged; they block each other's progress, and tremendous pressure builds up. Every so often, the snag breaks loose in one spot, the plates slide past each other and the ground suddenly shifts: earthquake...
...Crimson faces the easier portion of its schedule. During the losing slide, Harvard had to travel to powerhouses such as Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Pennsylvania...