Word: slides
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...unusual for prices to tumble in the post-Christmas January sales. But this year, there's more unwanted stock than ever. Shares across Europe traded down Tuesday, a day after registering their biggest single-day slide since September 11, 2001. London's FTSE 100 index fell 5.5% Monday, swiping $150 billion off the value of Britain's blue-chip firms. The sell-offs were brisk in Asia, too. Shares in China skidded more than 7% to a 5-month low Tuesday; markets even suspended trading in India and South Korea on the back of heavy losses...
...People in law enforcement, not surprisingly, agree, and aren't willing to ascribe the slide in crime to things beyond their control. On the contrary, some suggest that the super-predator generation would have been realized if not for an emphasis on fighting juvenile crime in some cities. Others point to better, more systematic monitoring of recently released ex-cons...
...Lofty politicians are rarely the best-loved class in any society. Still, the back-to-school prospect of seeing members France's most supercilious set of officials subjected to grading - and scolding when those notes slide - has elicited mirth, skepticism and indignation from Sarkozy's political opponents and pundits. Will Higher Education Minster Valérie Pécresse, for example, have to stand in a symbolic corner if evaluators find too few campuses have embraced her hard-fought university reform? Will French voters actually applaud Immigration and National Identity Minister Brice Hortefeux if he scores high...
...bodies pile up - and land with a sickening squishiness when they slide down the chute from Sweeney's parlor to the basement -the more sensitive may avert their eyes and turn from the movie. But this is gore with an agenda. Having seen where Sweeney came from, and the artistry Burton and Depp bring to his tale, we must keep watching. Horror has its own panache, its internal, infernal beauty. And nothing we see is as terrifying as the scar's on Benjamin Barker's soul when he devolved into Sweeney Todd...
...with my friends and colleagues at the magazine. Not that I always prove right. Still, I believe I'm right about this: Putin's formal emergence as the only viable national leader, and his tacit acceptance of the role, mark for Russia a point of no return in its slide into a new authoritarianism, the shape and nature of which cannot yet be fully defined. I'm sure that the period of Putin's rule - which I predict will be long - will once again put the country in the situation described by the great Russian historian Vasili Klyuchevsky almost...