Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sober side; the other showed a few moments later when supporters brought him a cake shaped like the country, lush with flags marking the states he had carried. As the bearers held it up, the cake started to slip. Said Reagan with his widest grin: "When that began to slide, I thought that maybe the world was going out as I was getting...
...After a slide show, LeRoy Collins '81, a member of the committee formed last spring by President Bok to investigate the possibility of a center, outlined the student model for a center, saying it would enhance the University's academic environment and address the alienation felt by many minority students...
...even should a thousand Quixotes astride Democratic donkeys sally forth to take up the gauntlet, they stand no chance. The American majority will sleep blissfully for the next 10 or 15 years--they years when our slide gains invisible but irresistible momentum--dreaming only of increased discretionary income. Reagan and his ilk, assuming they can avoid war and keep the Pentagon to five sides, will be able to solve inflation in the short run, and that's all that really troubles Americans. Reduced government spending, coupled with a traditional industrial base growing to meet the demands of Betamax-hungry consumers...
...most of the 5,000 people in Manila's plush International Convention Center, the explosion at first seemed to be a sound effect: they had been watching a noisy slide show depicting U.S. Admiral George Dewey's 1898 defeat of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. But the blast was a real one: 18 stunned and bleeding delegates to a convention of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) emerged from the hall after a bomb exploded only 50 ft. from their host, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines...
...former general, and his U.S.-educated Prime Minister, Nam Duck Woo, worked hard to ensure a heavy voter turnout. Roving "enlightenment teams" explained details of the new constitution at more than 3,600 local meetings. The President would be limited to a single seven-year term, for example; any slide toward dictatorship would be checked by new powers granted to the National Assembly...