Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gravity of Castro's reaction. The Immigration and Naturalization Service and the State Department are continuing to process the excludables, as well as would-be Cuban immigrants. Said one State Department official: "With every day that goes by without additional reaction, the chances are better for things to slip back to where they were." President Reagan, who personally gave the go-ahead for the station May 18, seemed unperturbed by Cuba's response. On Monday, he was due in Miami at a fund raiser for Republican Senator Paula Hawkins, one of Radio Marti's most vociferous advocates...
Sweat-suited and sneaker-footed, with pedometers clipped firmly at waists, they appear, sometimes before dawn, and slip quietly through the shopping-mall entrance with a wave to smiling guards. Early-bird bargain hunters? Well, no. These are not sales stalkers but a growing breed of fitness faddists, the mall walkers...
...moment at least, tourists can plan their travels with some confidence that their bargains will not slip away before they start shopping in boutiques. While the dollar may decline a bit more, it is unlikely to drop sharply or to go back to its days as a downhill racer. Like most American tourists, the dollar is having a good trip...
...some muscle movements are almost impossible for most people to fake. For example, individuals who feel real grief will move the inner corners of their eyebrows upward. Only about 10% of the time, Ekman's experiments show, can people deliberately move this portion of the eyebrows. Another instructive facial slip: the so-called squelched expression, the fleeting appearance of a hidden emotion, followed by a rapid adjustment back to the desired look...
Another purpose of the maneuvers may be to slip some indirect aid to the contras. In the past, the anti-Sandinista guerrillas have picked up weapons | and equipment left behind by American troops after military exercises in Honduras ended. The contras could use some help. Though the U.S. Congress does not seem to be terribly disturbed by the American military maneuvers, it cut off direct funding of the anti-Sandinista rebels last June. A vote likely in the next month on the Reagan Administration's request to renew aid with a $14 million appropriation is expected to be breathtakingly close...