Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Epps said he won't let the plan slip through because rules forbid students from conducting business through university rooms...
...time continued to slip away, the odds against retrieving many more survivors lengthened. That did not stifle the efforts of the rescuers. But as a steady stream of bodies moved toward local cemeteries and damage estimates rose as high as $2 billion to $3 billion, Mexican officials began looking ahead to the next stages of the relief operation, which include relocation and health services for the living and the city's eventual reconstruction. In one sense, Mexico City had been lucky: key industrial sectors of the city were undamaged by the quake, meaning that the impact of the disaster...
...buckles, creating craggy mountain ranges like the Himalayas. If they grind past each other, as the Pacific and North American plates do under California's San Andreas fault, friction locks them together. Every so often, abrupt slippages occur and the earth around them shudders in what geologists call strike-slip quakes. Still another kind of tectonic phenomenon, the meeting of an oceanic and a continental plate, is responsible for the Mexican disaster...
...South Africa on notice that the U.S. will impose even stronger sanctions if Preto- ria refuses to work toward re- form. Scoffed House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "The President did a somersault this weekend. Unfortunately, he landed on his head." Determined not to let an effective political issue slip away, California Senator Alan Cranston declared, "The Republican Party is going to look weak on apartheid...
...Lions just missed their third touchdown of the afternoon when a wide-open John Pennywell let a Santos flare pass slip away, but Chirico came back on the next play to bull the ball to the Harvard 1-yd. line...