Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events that private myth, the personal subtext of events, had replaced. Down the wet streets of Cambridge Bell walked, but he walked, careless of time and of history, down into the fading gray all-nite movie theatre pool hall used car lot out front of Dreamland, a Jungian slide show punctuated by snatched conversations and bits of song, run by the Prince Emmanuel himself, down in the Prince Emmanuel's land. Dreamland...
...impending carbon monoxide emission standards for heavy gasoline-fueled trucks. Mistrustful of the presumed environmentalist bias of career EPA employees, she has centralized control. Research scientists now cannot release findings until they have been approved as "appropriate" by four levels of the bureaucracy; public information programs, such as slide shows and computer software dealing with science issues, require seven levels of approval...
...town of Ben Lomond (pop. 2,793). Naomi Taylor says she heard a rumbling and looked outside. There, 20 ft. away, a 15-ft.-high tide of water and mud cascaded past, carrying her car with it. Her house was unscathed. Lester Grizzell, 54, slept through the mud slide. Says he: "It snuck in so smooth and slippery we didn't even hear it." But when he awoke, surrounding houses were gone. In another Santa Cruz town, Felton (pop. 2,062), John Raskins and his family fled from their home as it filled with muck. A salvage attempt proved...
...climber midway up a steep cliff, the stock market cautiously tried a slight advance last Monday. But then vertigo took over. On Tuesday, brokers' telephones lit up with customer sell orders that drove the Dow Jones industrial index down 17 points, the market's worst one-day slide in four months...
Debbie Taft made a rink-long rush, faking around two Colby defensemen, only to have her backhand slide just wide. Sue Newell let go a wicked wrist shot, but a screened Mead got her stick on it at the last minute...