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Word: slips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Play was just as even in the second half, and the Crimson got as close as 5-4 late in the fourth period. But as Harvard let a last-minute man-up situation slip away, it let the game slip away as well, as the men from Providence won, 6-4--the closest game between the two squads since the inception of water polo as a varsity sport at Harvard...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Aquamen Place Sixth at Eastern Leagues | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

...Slip Slidin' Away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Finish 4th at ECACs | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

...Pentagon accuses the Commerce Department of letting computers and other sophisticated gear slip into the hands of the Soviets. But advocates of freer trade point out that U. S. restrictions are tight enough to cost the country $9 billion in lost sales every year. -- Investors find profits by taking stock in bankruptcy. -- A new book tells how the Chinese vanquished famine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...lean back in your chair, and slip into reverie about beating Michigan in the Rose Bowl (the Pac-10 champ cancelled at the last minute) and winning the national title. You smile, and wave to the national television audience as you get interviewed by Keith Jackson...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Joe Restic's Dream Season | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

...Japanese company's president ordered his export sales manager to "do what had to be done to get the business," the report says. That launched more than a year of globe hopping and clandestine meetings between Toshiba executives and Soviet officials, who eventually hatched a scheme to slip altered equipment past Japan's export watchdog, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware Of Machines in Disguise | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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