Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in Portland, the cops looked like idiots for letting the 18-year-old slip through their fingers, especially after the Oregonian in July reported the Mazatlan trip. They called in the big guns of U.S. law enforcement: America's Most Wanted. Detective Kelly Krohn, a tall, goateed man running the investigation, appeared on the TV show on July 25. Tom saw the segment and freaked. He ran again, to Las Vegas. But he knew it was over. He called his dad from a casino, told him he wanted to come in, and three FBI agents arrested...
Someone has taped a lime-green slip of paper to the door of my New Quincy suite, redeemable for one does of nostalgia, annoyance or general indifference, depending on one's mood. The paper is, of course, a schedule of Senior Bar events for the month of April, those much-hyped occasions when the class of '99 descends en masse upon a local bar or generously provisioned common room in search of drinks and chatter...
However, she notes that the City Council has seen a lot of property-including affordable housing and open space-slip through its fingers...
...wants to look tough. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky showed up on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell the American hard line. But she and the administration could now risk getting burned from another direction: Many U.S. businessmen feel the White House may have let a good deal slip...
When they're not wearing cotton cargo pants, women are pairing light slip dresses with sandals...