Last February, the austral stood at 17 to the dollar before starting its spectacular slide.

And for Murphy, who started Carlisle's slide in that match with a handball inside the penalty area.

He was the winning pitcher in the game that started the Mets' slide out of wild-card contention.

As he started his slide, with the volcanic rock zooming just inches from his helmet, Roman heard a strange commotion behind them in the tunnel.

The Yankees started their slide on Aug. 9 when they fell out of first place after holding the lead for 39 of the previous 40 days.

Some of his children's enterprises lost money when the Indonesian economy started its slide down, down.

Locke felt a single bead of sweat start its slow slide down his forehead.

"He started his slide after the bag," Walker said.

Torgeir had already started his long slide into oblivion with a focused determination of his own.

The financial industry, which had started its slide, began to send even more jobs outside the city as part of businesses' planning for another similar disaster.