Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Macintosh owners without a convenient surface to slide their mouse over, will certainly appreciate a mouse pad ($10). This handy rubber (or synthetic) slab helps keep the mouse moving smoothly, and prevents dust from accumulating on the mouse's main moving part. Also useful for mouse improvement is a new set of the little teflon feet on each corner of the mouse ($3) they will also improve the mouse's glide, whether on a special pad or just a desktop...
...week's end the SEC offered a defense of the $440 million sell-off. Boesky's action was legal, the commission declared, and the regulators had been fully aware of it. The SEC realized there was a danger of a stock-market slide after the announcement of the action against Boesky. If that happened, Boesky would have been forced because of margin debts on his stock accounts to liquidate huge amounts of securities quickly. That could have sent the market into a steeper downward spiral. The SEC apparently decided it would be better for Boesky to dispose of some...
...stream will enable Chrysler to devote a hefty $12.5 billion between 1986 and 1990 to developing new models and equipping old factories to produce them. During that time, Chrysler plans to rebuild aggressively its share of the auto market to nearly the level it claimed before the company's slide in the late 1970s. At Chrysler's 1987-model preview in September at Texas Stadium in suburban Dallas, Iacocca announced that the company aims to boost its share from 11% to 15% at the rate of about 1 percentage point annually...
...symptoms are dramatic enough: the initial forgetting of small things such as house keys and dates, followed by deepening confusion, hostility and depression. Then the long, slow slide back into childlike dependence, until the victim can no longer sit up, speak or go to the toilet. Yet even then, when family and friends have suffered the heartbreaking deterioration of a loved one, it is still impossible to name the slow killer with absolute certainty. Only after the patient has died and an autopsy is done can the core of the brain be examined for the telltale dead nerve cells...
Despite the absence of junior Suzie Tapson and freshman Manda Schossberger--two of the team's top starters--the netters were able to break their losing slide...