Word: slips
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Most restaurants featuring natural food concede that they are hard pressed to offer a 100% organic menu year-round. The best they can hope for is 80% to 90% during the spring and summer months, when local farms are in full bloom; in winter the percentage can slip below 50%. Running an organic restaurant presents other problems. The hours are longer than the average restaurant's, and the drill is more tedious. Menus can change daily, depending on what is available. Since there is no federal definition of what is organic, chefs tend to rely on products certified as authentic...
...attempt to break Harvard's full-course press, which had given Yale trouble in the second half, McCready let a Peterson pass slip through his hands and out of bounds...
...reality. However, Soviet subs have become markedly quieter in recent years (partly because of Soviet espionage on U.S., Japanese and Norwegian propeller technology, which has reduced the cavitation, or spewing of noisy bubbles, from the blades). By some estimates, the Soviets are now able to slip undetected to within 10,000 yds., or torpedo range, of American boats. As a result, U.S. experts are scrambling to develop more sophisticated listening techniques...
...incredible desire to win," Delaney Smith said. "I was over-whelmed. There was a feeling that there was no way we were going to let that game slip away...
...recorded birdcalls and musty incense fill the air, half a dozen customers file into a tiny office in Manhattan's SoHo district. Soon they slip off their shoes, climb into beds and lie with eyes closed for the next 45 minutes. Spinning patterns of intense colors appear before their eyes, and a low pulsating beat follows them as they drift in and out of dreamlike states. After the session, a young man rises, looking dazed. "Welcome home," a woman says to him. "That was a nice one," he answers contentedly...