Word: slipping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...speech last year, I can’t help but feel that, on June 7th, the sound of Bill Gates' voice will represent “the sound of the train of fun coming to a halt.” We won’t be able to slip-and-slide on the Quad, play paintball on a Tuesday, or visit a brewery in the middle of the week. Unless you want be that kid that keeps coming back after graduation to pretend as though it never ended, the lifestyle of a college student becomes instantly harder to justify after...
...What she failed to mention, or perhaps appreciate, is that the company let its most valuable commodity slip away. Last December, Teresa Earnhardt told the Wall Street Journal that her stepson had to make a choice between being a driver or a public personality. What that statement illustrated was not so much Earnhardt's conundrum but her own failure to recognize that his celebrity was, is and will be the driving force behind the lucrative sponsorship deals and broad-based fan support that fuel the business. In a time when even well-heeled shops like Roush Racing are looking...
...gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.' U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, on Queen Elizabeth II's reaction to his verbal slip: "You helped our nation celebrate its Bicentennial...
...fact, many people with psychosis are rehabilitated with medication, counseling and monitoring and never turn violent. Let's use the term mental illness judiciously so that its stigma does not prevent people from seeking help and early intervention. If we don't, paradoxically, that could cause more patients to slip through the cracks. Anuradha Gupta, Stamford, Connecticut...
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, about a look Queen Elizabeth II gave him after this verbal slip: "You helped our nation celebrate its Bicentennial...