Word: slipping
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Toward the end of the race, the Crimson suffered a slight slip-up—one over which neither Penn nor Navy had any control...
There are, of course, well-marked lasts during one’s senior year: Commencement, Senior Week, and the Last Chance Dance, among other things, all make our leaving this place a self-conscious act. But it is the smaller lasts, the ones that slip away unnoticed, that break my heart when I think about them—because it is the small things that fill our lives here. I have a single now, which means I can never again bitch to my blockmates about having been sexiled; my last chance to comp anything has gone by. My last campus...
Bunroku Yoshino, president of the Institute for International Economic Studies in Tokyo, predicted that Nakasone's modest plan would have little impact. He expects the Japanese growth rate to slip from 4.5% this year to 4% or even 3.5% in 1986, primarily because the country's exports will increase at a slower pace. The government is reluctant to adopt more potent stimulative measures, like large tax cuts, because it wants to keep the Japanese inflation rate, only about 2.5% this year, firmly under control...
...life and the classroom. "But it can be a mixed blessing," he says. "The learning styles are different, more resources are needed for language support, and in some classes local students shy away from doing group work with Asian students." Academics and administrators are sensitive to claims of a slip in degree standards, poor-quality students and soft marking to keep foreigners coming through the turnstiles. RMIT vice-chancellor Margaret Gardner believes that going all out for growth in student numbers is a dangerous game. "Australian higher education has been very successful. But it would be wrong to think that...
...start with a half-boat-length lead, holding four seats over the Crimson in the race’s opening strokes. But Harvard didn’t panic, and by the time the Crimson settled into its base cadence, Princeton saw its early advantage start to slip away...