Word: sloping
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...SPECTER haunting this decision was Nazi Germany and its policy of killing the aged, infirm, mentally handicapped and other people whose quality of life was poor enough (as the Nazis saw it) to justify eliminating them for the greater good of society. This was the slippery slope down which the Florida courts feared to slide...
THERE IS a qualitative difference between these patients--who have been, and may be in the future, human beings with some capacity for mental experience--and infants who have never had and will never have that capacity. This qualitative difference would prevent the slippery slope that the judges feared...
...more watchers for his second run, if only to see Tomba come out to collect a bouquet. If Alberto wins today," he offers gamely, "I win too." Besides, he has had a chance to see his hero in action. "The legend really fits," he says, after sideslipping down the slope. "Tomba's almost spiritual, he's so relaxed...
...Teruel begins his second run with the sun setting fast behind the mountains, the public-address system, which had been shouting "Absolutely superb! Incredible!" as other skiers took the slope, simply announces, "Michael Teruel, from Buffalo, in the Philippines." But Teruel, who finishes 71st -- 36 places higher than where he started -- is exultant. "I can't wait to go back to see the dean," he says. His friends won't see him on TV, he says, but he feels something has been achieved. Moreover, he adamantly opposes any official ruling that would limit the number of competitors...
...hockey-size rink. Scuttling along a sheet of ice, brushing away bumps with a broom to clear the path of a flat, slow-moving stone. Or ducking one's head, bracing one's breakables and trying to hurtle faster than a sports car down a short stretch of sheer slope, sans turns, sans twists and sans breathing...