Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Critiques dominated the two-day Kremlin meeting of the Central Committee. Ivan Polozkov, head of the Russian republic's Communist Party, told Gorbachev, "I cannot understand how, after taking on such a large and responsible affair as perestroika, you have let the steering wheel slip from your hands." Admiral Gennadi Khvatov, commander of the Pacific fleet, intoned the old slogan, "The fatherland is in danger." Gorbachev, tired of the harangues, stormed to the rostrum and announced he would resign...
...would be a tragedy for Radcliffe, with its rich history and resources, to let its potential role in undergraduates' educations slip away. It is pledged to maintain both of these goals, and it should honor that pledge...
Munger offers a passable performance as Pozzo, though he tends to slip in and out of an English accent from line to line. Munger also lapses into repetitive mannerisms that limit his character's depth. As Lucky, Fish offers a hilariously disturbing rendition of his character's famous speech in the first act. Jung A-Choi gives a monochromatic performance as Godot's messenger, adding little to the show...
...findings, published in the current issue of the journal Cell, suggest that the sense of smell may work very differently. When odor molecules drift among the millions of tiny cilia located high in the nasal cavity, they seem to slip into certain odor receptors like keys into locks. The fact that there are such a large number of different kinds of odor receptors suggests that much of the work of discriminating among smells is being carried out at a chemical level within the nose itself. Signals from these receptors are then transmitted to the olfactory bulb, the small region...
Every spring around this time, Gregory Gorbach gets fired. He currently teaches 10th-grade science at Folsom High School outside Sacramento, and he's good at his job. Last month, right on schedule, the principal called him in and handed him a pink slip. But sometime over the summer, once the school district figures out how much money it really has to spend, it may hire Gorbach again. This pattern doesn't do a lot for his morale. "I like teaching," he says, "but if I have to, I'll leave it. I don't feel teachers should have...