Word: slips
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...city of Jericho. Now negotiators are scrambling to meet this week's deadline for an accord that would detail a timetable for Palestinian elections as well as a redeployment of the Israeli army in the West Bank. The original deadline for the new agreement was July 1, but that slipped to July 25 and may slip again. The killing last week of two Israeli hikers in the West Bank, presumably by Palestinian terrorists -- the first such murders in three months -- does not seem to have stymied the talks, however, and the two sides appear to be close to a deal...
After a week of negotiation, there came a day in April when the first major spending-cut bill of the G.O.P. Congress had reached a delicate final stage. That was when someone in the Senate cloakroom handed a slip of paper to Trent Lott of Mississippi, the second-ranking Senate Republican. On it was a column of figures -- the Democrats' final offer. Lott looked it over and paused. "I guess the only thing left to do is check this with the leader," he said. That would not be necessary. Poring over the numbers with him was a weary-looking blond...
...AUDREY KISHLINE, 38, OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THE MOMENT OF truth came one evening several years ago, when she consumed a single glass of wine with dinner. According to the most cherished tenets of all the A.A. meetings she had attended since her late 20s, that tiny slip off the wagon should have been enough to condemn the young mother of two to repeat her history of uncontrolled drinking. Instead, she says, "I realized that it was my choice. That this one glass of wine was a small, though enjoyable, part of my life." She found that she could limit...
Being single and a parent is a good way to slip into poverty. Millions of single mothers know that, but it can be even worse to be a single father. Terry Younger remembers when he tried to get help in rearing his three children. "I've gone to some of these places, said I needed some help, and they just said, 'We can't help you; you're not a lady,' '' says Younger. "So it's double jeopardy, and I'm bucking the system...
...Harvard, my religious devotion some-howbegan to slip away. Once, Id' sung soprano inSingapore's Wesley Methodist Church and felt Godwas listening when I sang my favorite hymn,"Surely The Presence of the Lord is in ThisPlace." Darwin had always given me something tothink about, though, and taking E.O. Wilson'sclass on evolutionary biology my first semesterinadvertently gave me greater pause. And inChaucer section, discussing the socialmachinations of the Church in the Middle Ages onlyfanned the fires of doubt. There was more to itthan that, of course, but certainly I was growingdiscouraged. Going to services at Harvard-Epworth,the only...