Word: sloping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...laboratory - capped by this week's revelation that vital hard drives are missing from the lab's inner sanctum - and his struggle to stabilize gas prices, Richardson, once positioned near the top of the short list of this year's vice-presidential possibilities, is sliding backward down the political slope. And it's unclear if anyone is willing to break his fall...
...Beatles' 1965 film "Help!" director Richard Lester sent the Liverpool boys down a ski slope with no more instruction than a push and a smiling, bald nod. They were lucky, after all, as all they had to do was ski a bit, fall over and writhe on the ground in rhythm to "Ticket to Ride...
...then the Bloodhound Gang hasn't exactly been a model of ethnic sensitivity. To quote "Yellow Fever," off the One Fierce Beer Coaster album, "Cause I ride my slant-eyed slope like a brand new Kawasaki/Oh me chinky she's so kinky got me hot like Nagasaki." Best form of protest for a group that seems to like controversy? Don't write letters, just leave the dance floor every time you hear any of their songs. And pull your friends...
...Harvard Law School professor, and Catharine A. MacKinnon, a professor of law at the University of Michigan squared off on the VAWA inside a packed Ames Courtroom. Though the evening's preferred language was esoteric legalese, the major arguments came through loud and clear. Fried described a slippery-slope scenario, whereby the precedent set by VAWA would allow Congress to circumvent state sovereignty indiscriminately. MacKinnon dismissed these concerns out-of-hand, postulating that civil suits remedy flaws in state legal systems that have allowed gender violence to be "kept private and kept silent" for so long...
...Since then, the story has been the Union Club’s gradual slide down the slope of Boston society. It has long been described as the “Rodney Dangerfield of Clubs.” Today the club is overrun by lawyers. The Union Club occupies the original mansion of Amos Lawrence on No. 7 and 8 Park Street. The upstairs dining rooms each have a magnificent view of the Commons to the west...