While Capitol Hill might have the market cornered on dysfunction, the rest of the city has undergone some serious self-improvement, with slick new condos cropping up on once desolate street corners, and brick-walled wine bars replacing boarded-up storefronts.
Immediately after, a slick-looking guy started chatting up Ferdowsi in Farsi.
Sharjah's Natural History Museum has had over 200, 000 visitors since it opened two years ago, but setting up slick audio-visual displays is a far cry from breeding rare animals in captivity.
Elvis was one of the 20th century's biggest cultural forces--the first white, mainstream rock star whose slick hair and shaking hips unleashed the pent-up dance fever and sexual energy of 1950s teenagers.
Chelsea were slick and patient in their build-up play but the final touch around the box was lacking.
Kevin Sinfield's slick offload set up a cross-field move rounded off when Senior went over in the left-hand corner, a historic try as it kept up his record of having scored in every season of Super League.
Conflict-minded Apple fans argue that Android phones are less slick and uglier, and that they junk up the system with low-quality apps generated in its open developer community.
Just hold your horses -- some of these slick machines are drumming up extra anticipation with release dates well into the holiday shopping season.
With temperatures lower than in the first session and light rain falling, there was little action for the opening part of the second 90-minute session as the pit crews switched their attention to the weather and weighed up swapping dry-weather slick tyres for intermediates.
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Likewise, Apple can seem to do no wrong, picking up new customers with slick, high-end designs.
It will be slick, emotionally engineered, served up in bite-size chunks, and cast with people with little connection to "normal" life who will recite what's expected of them because they want to be on TV.
The slick-haired, soft-spoken Hatoyama, who grew up in a well-to-do family of politicians, may have grown too out of touch with everyday people and their economic hardships.
Despite strong sales and earnings growth, Apple shares are down 18.9% this year, thanks largely to a dip in January after Jobs introduced the MacBook Air, a slick, ultra-light laptop that couldn't live up the expectations set by the previous year's introduction of the iPhone (to be fair, how could anything live up to that?).
Against the Cavs he showed up with a Beckhamesque faux-hawk and a pair of slick blue and orange Nikes.
Would I rather just give up and remain in Atlanta with its picture-perfect playgrounds, slick shopping malls and robust economy?
The pressure to trial that, Kers, and slick tyres - which are back after 11 years on grooved rubber - is being cranked up by the ban on in-season testing.
During the three-hour climb up rocky switchbacks to the pass, we stomp through several steep spots blanketed in knee-deep snow and ice. (You really feel those 30 pounds shifting around on your back as you try to maintain your balance.) We're forced to detour around one switchback and shimmy up a slick, steep incline of green brush, holding on to plants for leverage--and praying for solid foot positions.
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