Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respectively, could suffer an economic earthquake. Steel, rubber and glass producers could lose their biggest customer. GM, for example, buys about 10% of all the steel produced in the U.S. Sales in stores and restaurants are likely to slip when striking workers stay home, and tax revenues will slide...
...scold. Thus Saudi Arabia has perplexed the global oil industry this summer by boosting its output by 1 million bbl. a day beyond the country's voluntary quota of 4.5 million bbl. The extra crude has aggravated the world's surplus of oil and triggered a dramatic slide in prices. The situation again threatens OPEC's power to control the cost of crude. In March 1983, the countries were forced to make their first price cut in history, a $5-per-bbl. markdown...
...price slide was triggered by an unusual Saudi deal in which the country plans to exchange some 34 million bbl. of oil for ten new Boeing 747 jetliners. Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani protested the arrangement because it would add to the glut on the world oil market. But Prince Sultan, chief of the military and the national airline, overruled him, apparently because the royal family wanted to avoid dipping into the country's foreign-exchange reserves to pay for the planes. By exceeding its OPEC production quota, Saudi Arabia provided an easy excuse for most other...
...down a slippery slope who finds a little horn of ice to grasp, but so soon as he embraces it, the projection breaks loose. I saw that if I could not decide the first question, which was: Put it!-Was I the killer?-then I could - not stop the slide...
...stilts, as so many others are, but she explains them by saying, "Well, you're kind of on top of the world. Where else could you have this horizon? And some stayed in place even in the earthquake in '71. You may get a slide, but then the sun comes out, you clean up the mud, and you're here for another season. You build a retaining wall." A journalist who lives here volunteers that "people say, 'That felt like a 5.3 or a 6.8.' What really concerns them is an 8.1. They never...