Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thereby virtually wiped out the minor leagues, the women's circuit managed to persist for 11 seasons. Its initial appeal was a combination of the freaky (Hey, Herb, you think maybe they chew tobacco too?) and the sexy (You should see them little skirts fly up when they slide!). But there were a lot of frustrated tomboys out there who loved the game and were good at it, and who were willing to brave male haw-hawing (and genteel feminine disapproval) in order to strut their skills...
Much of the diplomatic activity has been prompted by growing fears in the West that if democratic values and free-market economies fail to take root, the whole southern rim of the old Soviet empire will slide inexorably into the embrace of Islamic fundamentalism. Central Asia has been an arena for clashing values, an ancient land swept successively by Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Tatars, Russians and finally communist bureaucrats. During 70 years of heavy-handed rule, Soviet administrations made every effort to standardize life and co-opt Islamic culture. The abrupt end of Moscow's power has left...
...Smith Jr., 54, head of GM's profitable foreign operations); Robert T. O'Connell, 53, was bumped from executive V.P. and chief financial officer to senior V.P. Those moves had been expected since late last year, when outside directors began grousing about GM's inability to halt its slide. Last year the company's U.S. operations lost $7 billion, forcing GM to close 21 plants and eliminate 74,000 jobs...
According to Rifkin, civilization began a long slide downhill when 18th century British gentry acquired a taste for fat-marbled beef and proceeded to spread that proclivity, like a plague, throughout the Western world. Rifkin's real argument, of course, is not with the 1.3 billion bovines that roam the planet but with modern methods of mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated...
Nowhere has the economic engine been sputtering more loudly than in Detroit, where car sales had climbed 3% during the first two months of this year only to slide 6.9% in the period from March 11 to March 20. "Obviously, this is not a boom," says Thomas Webb, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association. Yet the modest overall pickup has left the Big Three with dwindling backlogs of unsold cars and busier production schedules. Ford plans just 12 weeks of plant shutdowns to trim inventories in the second quarter, compared with 36 weeks for the same period...