Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...orders of protection -- are often read by enraged men as a license to kill. "A restraining order is a way of getting killed faster," warns Dietz. "Someone who is truly dangerous will see this as an extreme denial of what he's entitled to, his God-given right." That slip of paper, which documents his loss, may be interpreted by the man as a threat to his own life. "In a last-ditch, nihilistic act," says Roland Maiuro, director of Seattle's Harborview Anger Management and Domestic Violence Program, "he will engage in behavior that destroys the source of that...
When asked how they could have let the most famous double-murder suspect in history slip away under their noses, the angry police commander and the tight- faced lawyer and the whole choir of commentators all said the same thing, without a trace of irony: "We never thought he would...
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton has said in the past that he won't let America's military readiness slip -- but it may be happening anyway. A key measure of Army combat preparedness is how many miles each tank is driven per year in maneuvers. According to a confidential report, Army tanks averaged only 588 miles last year, 75% of what's considered ideal...
...system in a revolutionary way, although at the time it would have been rather easy to do so. Of course, the current system will change, but it may do so once again quite painfully while we are looking for another system. History does not forgive us when we let slip a fatal, critical moment...
...rather than be forthright about problems inthe search, Rudenstine and other Universityofficials remained conspicuously silent.Massachusetts Hall became consistent only in itsdenials. When a secretary let slip that Scott hadtaken a new job and was coming in only formessages and the occasional meeting, Harvardinsisted there was nothing wrong with having apart-time vice president for finance...