Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folksy that it is jarring to hear him privately revert to his more acerbic Washington self. "People out there know I'm working," Dole snaps when asked if his Senate duties detract from his campaign. "They know Bush doesn't have to." Tired, Dole lets his affability slip. "Bush hasn't said word one since the market crashed," he says angrily. "He has nothing to worry about; he can just go out on Air Force Two, using dozens of federal employees, at a cost of millions . . ." Dole's voice trails off, his flare of resentment spent...
...Germany face less pressure for wage increases. Despite the strong mark, Germany has become the world's leading exporter. Japan is openly contemptuous of the notion that the U.S. can solve its problems through devaluation. Says Johsen Takahashi, chief economist of the Mitsubishi Research Institute: "Letting the dollar slip now is like spitting up into the sky." Another Japanese economist is equally blunt: "America is no longer in control of its own currency...
Randy was there. In the endzone. Somehow he had managed to slip past a gigantic Crimson secondary and find a patch of open space in the endzone. Just a little batch of green in the corner of the endzone, but Randy was there...
...raise income tax rates sharply in the wake of the 1929 Crash. Says University of Tennessee Economist Paul Davidson: "Cutting the deficit at this particular time would be the worst thing we could do. It would be Hooverism all over again. If the budget cuts proceed, we could slip into another Great Depression...
...Neumann, 24, helped Roberts slip across the border into East Germany in the trunk of a rented car in April...