At the same time, the rope skidded through his fingers.
From a Harte corner Bywater again missed the delivery, and when Long's header skidded in front of goal the skipper Matt Mills was a fraction away from converting.
Japan skidded back into recession on Monday, a concern for sure, but something that happens so frequently that it's a headline that has lost the power to shock.
Long-Term Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund he founded with, among others, Robert Merton, a feLTCM Nobel laureate, skidded off thedgead in 1998.
But this now makes them vulnerable to the global slowdown, and in recent months their shares have skidded.
On June 29th Infraero, the state airports agency, re-opened the main runway at Congonhas, closed for resurfacing after several planes skidded while landing in rain.
In New York, the hub of the messenger world, the number has skidded from 2,500 during the dotcom frenzy in the 1990s to an estimated 1,100 today, according to Joel Metz, who runs www.messengers.org, the website of the International Federation of Bike Messenger Associations.The reason is straightforward.
Investors loved it enough to value the company at $28 billion in October 2001, less than two months before it skidded into bankruptcy.Special report Back to basics How was it for you?
His erstwhile charges fell out, fell apart, skidded in and out of marriages, were shot down.
A low point came in 2007 when a TAM plane skidded off the end of a runway in São Paulo, killing 199 people.
Delta 1086, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, was landing at LaGuardia in a snowstorm when it skidded off the runway and into an earthen berm that separates the airport from Flushing Bay.
