Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those gains will be difficult to achieve and America will slip behind in an increasingly com- petitive world market unless American schools supply a different kind of student, he warned...
Cars do not like to drive through the snow. For them, it is a mechanical hindrance. Bikes do not like to ride through the snow. Their tires slip. People prefer not to walk through the snow. Well, it does weigh on one's already tied calf muscles and the obvious threat to pant legs must be considered. But the dogs out on the field, which otherwise might be called a green, between the Leverett towers and Dunster gate, seem to enjoy the snow, regardless of the month. They play frisbee. Their hydraulics appear in fine working condition. Big dogs, labradors...
...definitely busier than normal, emergency-wise," said PAS Director of Operations Bill C. Mergendahl, citing an increase in the number of slip-and-fall incidents reported to his ambulance service...
Associate Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burriss Young '55 recommended that police officers circulate in the dorms and slip notes under unlocked doors, informing the occupants that they could have been burglary victims...
...signed the same nefarious New Hampshire anti-tax pledge that he had forthrightly and courageously refused to autograph eight years ago. Now, knowing that the 2004 campaign is something of a longshot for him, Bob Dole is seeing his last chance for the job he knows he deserves slip away. At this point, he'll be anyone to be president...