Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, Washington's biggest problem right now may be Yeltsin himself. Despite public denials, Primakov seems to want Yeltsin's job--an ambition that has resulted in a quick pink slip for previous Prime Ministers. And while American policy-makers may find it frustrating to deal with Primakov, they are terrified of the alternatives...
...autobiography, part theory of the mind, part history of contemporary Vienna. The principle that underlay this work was that mental experiences and entities, like physical ones, are part of nature. This meant that Freud could admit no mere accidents in mental procedures. The most nonsensical notion, the most casual slip of the tongue, the most fantastic dream, must have a meaning and can be used to unriddle the often incomprehensible maneuvers we call thinking...
...game," Shewchuk says. "I played full-contact a couple of years ago with boys in Montreal who were 6'2 or bigger, so size doesn't intimidate me. When you're short you have to be fast, and I like to think of my smallness as sneakiness. I can slip behind people a little easier than taller players. In some ways I have to take two strides when everyone else only needs one, but you learn to get past that and I haven't thought about my size for a long time...
...slip on some ice and break a hip, you're done," he said...
...slip on some ice and break a hip, you're done," he said flatly...