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Word: slips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Harvard didn't allow Princeton a point in the final four matches, each contest was tight. Holmes, who had coasted to a 7-0-1 record this season, edged his opponent, 3-2. In the final round, Konovalchik scored an escape and was awarded a point to slip by Tiger Paul Dzenitis. Willoughby and Consigli were granted only slightly greater margins of three and two points respectively...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Grapplers Make Final Homestand a Great Day | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

...second deadly AIDS virus, HIV-2. The strain was first discovered in West Africa in 1985; since then some 100 cases have turned up in Western Europe. The reason for concern: blood tests for HIV-1 do not always detect HIV-2, making it possible for the infection to slip through AIDS-screening procedures in blood banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS peak From new tests to new viruses | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...waited in line for an hour. and when I got up there they said, `Oh, you have signed a loan slip? Well then here's your blue slip. You can go,' "said Jonathan B. Bush '91. "What...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Harvard Hazards: Red Dots, Green Dots... | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...Republicans warned that the action would relieve part of the pressure on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega which they contend has forced him into recent concessions. The aid cut-off would allow Managua to slip backwards into renewed repression, the president's congressional supporters charged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Votes Down Contra Aid Package | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...dollar continued to slip even though foreign governments spent almost + $100 billion during 1987 to prop up the currency. By late December the dollar went into a nose dive. Unbeknown to most traders, though, the central bankers were quietly baiting a so-called bear trap, in which they aimed to punish speculators who had been reaping profits by consistently betting on the dollar's downfall. They secretly agreed to launch a dollar-buying binge when the currency hit a floor price, possibly at 120 yen. At first only the Bank of Japan came to the rescue. Then all at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaming Up to Rescue the Dollar | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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