Word: slipping
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Other students are lounging on couches dragged onto the grass, or tossing frisbees back and forth while waiting for a chance to slip back inside the hot tub outside a coed frat...
...hard shroudies to shore up their hope that their cause is not lost. Faith is ratcheting up the scrutiny on science to unheard-of levels, and the mystified scientists, who considered the case essentially closed, find themselves challenged to make it so airtight that not even a prayer can slip...
...first public statement since Judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton, and part of a well-orchestrated show of force from her legal and financial backers. But some of the cracks were showing. One slip from Susan Carpenter-McMillan said it all: "I'm going to let her -- I'm sorry, we're going to let her speak for herself," said the erstwhile spokeswoman -- a hint of her much-reduced future role. As part of their price for taking this case to the next level, attorneys Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pike insisted on "coordinating" all media...
...heavy drinker and was lackadaisical in his work, should have been dismissed long before he came under suspicion. But the CIA in the past has tended to keep poor performers on the job, even in sensitive positions, fearing they might spill secrets if they got the pink slip. The Groat case shows how "it can become a counterintelligence problem when people go away unhappy," said an Administration official. In or out of the family, an angry spy can be a dangerous...
...weekly trips to New York wholesalers. (He doesn't buy clothes directly from individual shoppers, so leave those old sweaters at home.) Currently, much of the women's clothing sadly seems geared toward those with eating disorders. Even in so-called `size large,' a tiny lime-colored slip-dress ($24) barely covers the essentials. Access's velvet LBDs ($28) and silvery separates by Ceduxion ($24) share the same minimalist proportions...