Word: slide
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...grading allows instructors--of all ranks--to slide by without doing much of anything: it's easy to give a paper an A and write no comments. But a stricter policy would force all teachers to examine and criticize work more carefully. Along the same lines, grade inflation makes it impossible to evaluate teachers accurately. Students tend to be unduly harsh with tough graders--who, ironically, tend to be the most dedicated and hardworking teachers...
...Pigs landing. Lyndon Johnson's Joint Chiefs threatened a mass resignation over his policy of graduated escalation in Vietnam. And Dwight Eisenhower's five stars provided no cover when he tried to cut the Air Force budget. "When budgets go up, Presidents get along famously," says Beschloss. "When budgets slide, tensions rise...
Still, if the replacement parts don't slide easily into place, or if the solar panels refuse to unfurl after the work is done, the Hubble could be worse off than before the mission. Says Princeton astronomer Edwin Turner: "It's a tremendous gamble. If it succeeds, it will be a really impressive feat. Or they could leave us with a nonfunctional spacecraft." And a sharply diminished faith in NASA's ability to explore the last frontier...
Thus the question of who really rules Russia remains unresolved. The Congress is in no position to take over management of the government's daily affairs, and the President is unlikely to accept such humiliating defeat. The Congress's actions, warned his press secretary, Vyacheslav Kostikov, indicate a "slide back to Soviet communist power." That warning was not entirely verbiage, since most of the Congress Deputies were originally bureaucrats from the Communist Party, trade-union functionaries and directors of state factories and collective farms. They are opposed to basic reform partly out of nostalgia for the old days and partly...
...SATURDAY NIGHT AT DENIM & DIAmonds, a country-western nightclub in Santa Monica, California, and the joint is jumping -- literally. Under a spinning glitterball flanked by stuffed moose and deer heads, several hundred people in boots and ten-gallon hats are doing something called the Electric Slide. As a band pumps out a country hit, the dancers hook their thumbs in the front pockets of their jeans and line up shoulder to shoulder. Moving together to the beat, they cross one foot over the other and take three steps to the left, three steps to the right, rock back and forth...