Word: slides
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...offer than we had imagined. We frolicked through an allegedly “enchanted” garden (though we found it less than magical) and gawked at elaborate company picnics, complete with bouncy inflatable houses. We even stumbled upon a family that had set up a slip-n-slide on the side of a hill. In utter disbelief, Kevin asked a shirtless, red-bellied man where they had gotten the hose and water source. The man simply smiled back at us and replied, “It’s a park!” before hurling himself headfirst down...
...Hung said. “You have to mobilize all your senses, the eyes, the ears, to create a much more interesting medium that can convey powerful emotions to the audience.” Hung added that in many talks, presenters will just go from one PowerPoint slide to the next, reading the text off the screen in a monotonous voice. By contrast, he said, embedding movies or using one as a trailer can get the audience interested in the topic and help them understand the message. Similarly, Kuriyama said that in academic writing, being dull is often accepted?...
...Though it doesn't change the dismal bottom line, there is a difference between the current slide and the one that eviscerated markets last week. The earlier rout was caused by continuing fears that governments were not sufficiently committed to prevent the world's finance and banking sector from collapsing - worries temporarily allayed by rescue plans announced over the weekend in Washington and Paris, and detailed in trillion-dollar-terms Monday. But the confidence those measures inspired in global markets has given way to more classic concerns among traders of a looming economic downturn - or quite probably recession - undermining...
...turned upside down. The Republican has been as moody as Hamlet, with shifting policy proposals, fickle themes and muddled attacks. Since McCain has never been a party-establishment favorite, it's surprising how little carping and ship-jumping there has been in the wake of the Republicans' abrupt poll slide. But as giddy, shrewd Democrats sing all for one and one for all, GOP second-guessing and mutiny look inevitable...
...reminded of bath time as a child in my grandparents’ enormous tub. I would slide down on my back, submerge my whole body and then lurk there, grinning, until with luxurious slowness I let my stomach rise from the water. The smooth expanse looked like an island; I imagined my belly button as a lake. Each of my two knees would emerge in turn like mountains from the deep...