Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much graver danger to the region is that El Salvador will slip completely into chaos as the government discovers that it cannot control even the streets around its offices in San Salvador. "The military is showing itself to be incompetent," says a U.S. official. "Unless there's some radical and magical improvement, the guerrillas are going to keep coming in at will. It's really nightmarish...
...Slip Slidin' Away: The Harvard ski team begins its preparation for the upcoming season December 15 when it starts a week of intense training at Killington, Vt. There are 24 members on the ski team, six each on the men's and women's Nordic and men's and women's downhill squads...
After college, Osherow says she continually submitted poetry to various journals and contest committees, and more often than not found a rejection slip in her mail...
...these breakthrough products look hopelessly oversize. Last month Compaq unveiled a 2.2-kg (6-lb.) full-powered portable computer that fits in a briefcase. Sharp and Poqet make even smaller models that slip into a suit pocket. Today there are fax machines, radar detectors, electronic dictionaries, cellular telephones, color televisions, even videotape recorders that fit comfortably in the palm of a hand...
...issued a $1.3 billion mortgage on Rockefeller Center to outside investors. The mortgage holders can convert the loan into a 71.5% equity stake in twelve of Rockefeller Center's buildings in the year 2000. If the holders execute that option, Mitsubishi Estate's ownership in the storied center will slip into minority status -- and any fears that the towering Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center will be replaced by a tiny bonsai plant in Mitsubishi Center will prove to have been misplaced...