Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to get some people down here that might not be all that enthused about politics," he said. "Then we can slip in some politics, slip in some voter registration and slip in some excitement about the election...
...matters. When he addresses the team, each woman grows perfectly still; when he follows the boat in his launch, shouting out a steady stream of corrections, interrupted by the occasional, "Ja, that was good," they hardly dare look at him. Every so often, Buschbacher lets his tough-guy mask slip and acknowledges that his team is the best, the strongest, that the race is theirs to lose. But if he doesn't push them, he believes, no one will. One day, as the Eight begin oaring down the river, he buzzes alongside them like a particularly persistent gnat, detailing...
...National Conventions. Franken, for his part, says he wants Huffington to help his credibility by doing all her coverage in a negligee. While Franken looks forward to offending "a few Republican delegates who don't have a sense of humor, who'll get mad at me," he may also slip into Stuart Smalley mode. "I'm going to reach for common ground. I'm going to show that a complete nut-case right-winger and I can get along...
...news that status is perishable is the eternal lesson of Washington, where handling the big levers of power is no guarantee you won't slip through the trapdoor that opens anytime enough people pull those little levers in the voting booth. (Ask Tom Foley about that.) This is why so many people in that city prefer to seek influence, whether by virtue of the strength of their ideas or their access. The powerful are apt to look a bit careworn, while the winners of the influence game tend to be less accountable in public and for the most part more...
...sales in 1995. The $300 million deal does not include NEC's personal computer operations in Japan, where it is the No. 1 PC-maker. Packard Bell, whose growth exploded in the early 1990s as consumers jumped into the lower-priced PC market, has seen its market share slip during the first quarter this year. The merged company will be called Packard Bell NEC and be led by Packard Bell's CEO Beny Alagem, who said he expects the company to go public within two years. The deal builds on NEC's previous investments in Packard Bell, including the help...