Word: slipping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this weekend, but continued its recent trend of inconsistency in placing second, sixth, 10th, and 13th in four regattas.The Crimson’s top two sailors—seniors Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec—had the week off, and prior to the weekend slate, Harvard saw itself slip in the national polls: the Crimson co-eds dropped from fifth to seventh in the country and the women dropped from fourth to eighth.“We haven’t been sailing as well as we can,” sophomore Liz Powers said...
Kathleen H. Chen ’09 arrives at The Crimson calmly prepared for a challenge. As she picks up her 24 dollars for her 24 hours of designing, she is nonplussed when the theme of Metropolis is revealed. Two hours later, Chen, sporting purple slip-on shoes and black-frame glasses, is ready to go. Walking down rainy Mass Ave. to the Goodwill in Central Square, Chen explains her philosophy behind her creations: “I design clothes because I’m cheap,” says Chen, laughing. As Chen hustles through the Goodwill, dodging...
...recently hired Allied-Barton employee with a bold new vision for library security. Before Fasci, leaving Lamont meant passing bags and books through a perfunctory once-over. Things have changed. For James Fasci, bag-checking is an art. He methodically inspects every compartment of every bag to ensure nothing slips past. He religiously checks each cover of a book even if it bears no library markings, or has a prominently displayed Coop price tag still attached. He removes the face from every calculator, just in case someone is trying to elope with a business card or slip of stolen printer...
...Wittes says. "Namely, excess rhetoric." Even some Justices express concern on occasion. The newest of the nine, Alito, has confided that he finds the rhetoric dismaying, and he recently noted during a question-and-answer session at Pepperdine School of Law that it can be almost impossible to slip in a question among all the speechifying by his colleagues during oral argument...
...Politically, the Administration may be acting too clever by half. Perhaps the outrage on the right will pass, and the case will slip unnoticed into the books. But the last thing Bush needs right now is to try and explain to an already disillusioned Republican base why he's opposing the death penalty for a convicted immigrant murderer on orders from a bunch of judges in The Netherlands. If he hasn't already, this might make more Americans think twice about the wisdom of ever-expanding presidential power...