On Friday, new data indicated slippage in business confidence in Germany, presaging a slowdown or contraction there, if the euro crisis is not resolved soon.
With several national polls showing a dead-heat race before the second debate, Republicans expressed confidence that Mr. Bush's improved showing on Friday would stem the slippage from his angrier performance in the first meeting.
"After closing slightly lower on Friday, oil prices are weaker…reflecting concerns over further slippage in Asian equity markets," said John Kilduff of FiMAT's energy risk management group, in a note on Monday.
Blake, who beat the French qualifier Olivier Patience, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2, on Friday, did not have as painful a season in 2003 as Safin, but he was dissatisfied with his performance and his slippage in the ranking from a high of 22 to 37 by the end of the year.
There is slippage on the cost side, too.
This is the context in which this week's twin slippage on the referendum must be understood.
Two decades out and we are already seeing signs of slippage on the government's carbon ambitions.
McDaniel has played much less on defense, not because of slippage on his part, but because of the quick development of the rookie cornerbacks Will Allen and Will Peterson.
Because of the generational slippage on my side of the family (both my parents and I had children late), some of these cousins are her age.
There's been a lot of slippage on it," he said.
