Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second-term classes, was a crisp, late-winter Michigan afternoon. Exams would start Monday, but many Michigan State University [MSU] students had more important things on their minds. More than 500 undergraduates stood outside the Administration Building, carrying signs and chanting slogans. University President M. Cecil Mackey tried to slip in unnoticed through a back door, but the protesters spotted him and chased...
...other hand, Powell criticized the press for being too lenient with the Reagan administration. "The press must be careful not to let the president slip by. Reagan has been very successful at this." He pointed to Reagan's accelerated decontrol of oil prices as an issue he feels the press should have addressed in more detail...
Heather felt the minutes slip past her too fast to be exhilarated about finishing her rough draft. She was typing her own thesis onto the computer in Littauer's basement--doing that, she supposed, would allow her to type what would become a final draft and yet make revisions. The computer, moreover, automatically numbered footnotes and put them at the bottom of pages. Heather figured that since she had taken Nat Sci 110 as a freshman, she could breeze through the preliminaries of learning how to operate the text-editing language. And at five pages an hour, she figured...
...says the dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. "That and the beginning of spring give me energy that flows to my hair roots." Even before they noticed the sapphire-and-diamond "friendship ring" on Gouletas' finger last week, reporters were asking if a wedding was in the works. "A slip of the lip can sink a ship," replied Carey, "and I don't intend for my ship to sink." The lip slipped later in the week on the subject of U.S.-made automobiles. Disposable "Rleenex cars," he called them. Former Girlfriend and Ford Motor Heiress Anne Ford Uzielli would...
Weinberger: No, it just means that on the slip of paper that people fill out when they register they might give us some more useful information, like 'Where do we reach you in time of an emergency?' or 'What are some of your skills?' or 'What are some of your interests?' or a few more facts like that. Since you're going to all the trouble of getting people to sign up, it doesn't do very much good just to have the name and address. I think we need something a little more than is there now. But that...