Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice Department's Lisker to conclude that "it's fairly obvious that he [Billy] misled me, that he lied." On Jan. 16, Lisker and an FBI investigator asked Billy if he had received any money from Libya. Billy said no. But last week Lisker obtained a deposit slip from the Columbus Bank and Trust Co. of Columbus, Ga., showing that Billy deposited a $20,000 check from the Libyans...
Census officials are not at all surprised by the commotion. Slip-ups are just about inevitable in an undertaking as gargantuan as this year's $1 billion effort to reach the nation's 86 million households and then process the answers contained on 120 million forms. It is to uncover major inaccuracies that the bureau decided to issue tentative findings this year. The disclosure is part of a new review process in which the early field counts, along with the maps of housing units used by census takers in making their tally, are being sent to the nation...
...While food production is expected to rise 90% over 1970 levels in the next 20 years, assuming no deterioration in climate, most of this harvest of plenty will go to countries that are already well fed. That will mean calamitous scarcity in the Third World, which will slip farther behind the industrialized countries in per capita gross national product as well ($587 vs. $8,485 in 2000 compared with $382 vs. $4,325 in 1975, as measured in 1975 dollars). The number of malnourished will rise from an estimated half-billion people in the mid-1970s to 1.3 billion...
Mother was right: stand up straight. Keep the body relaxed but erect, although not in the ramrod West Point style. Throw back the shoulders, keep the abdomen pulled in. As a check, stand with heels, buttocks, shoulders and head pressed firmly against a wall. If you can barely slip your hand between the wall and the small of the back, mother should have no reason to complain...
...Corsaire. But wait. Up onstage were none of the usual Bolshoi Ballet stars, no Plisetskayas or Vasilyevs, no familiar figures at all. In fact, although the dancers showed flashes of the rigorous technique and expressive line that mark the Bolshoi style, there was here and there an unaccustomed slip, a slack fouetté, a leaden lift. What, then, accounted for the electric atmosphere in the theater? Why was the audience applauding so encouragingly, pointing out dancers and scribbling notes in programs...