Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nazi Germany and its policy of killing the aged, infirm, mentally handicapped and other people whose quality of life was poor enough (as the Nazis saw it) to justify eliminating them for the greater good of society. This was the slippery slope down which the Florida courts feared to slide...
...American sports-car buffs, the past 30 years has been one long slide into the molasses of 55-m.p.h. speed limits, fuel-economy ratings and safety requirements. They lived on memories of cars like the Shelby Cobra, the Ford muscle car that put American hot rodders on the map in 1965 when it blew past Ferraris and Porsches to win the World Manufacturing Championship...
...price slide has been a roundhouse punch to the big energy states of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico, still struggling to climb back from the earlier debacle. Scores of wildcatters, who find most of the domestic crude and who went after gas when the market fell apart, have folded in the past 18 months...
...reality went in for such special effects, some grace might try to freeze in midair the bullets blazing around America -- might slide them back up the gun barrels they came from, and then might drop the guns, especially the guns American youths are using to kill each other, into someplace like the Mindanao Deep...
Both opponents are struggling. Yale has mustered only one win in its last five outings, while Brown is mired in a eight game slide...