But the overnight election results were a slither of slightly good news for the president.
Mr Clark is steely-eyed about marketing toys which slither sexily down into single-figure age-groups.
Both give the strong impression of not being in politics merely to survive or slither to the top.
What joints there are between the floors are loosely fitting wooden brackets that allow each storey to slither around.
Environmentalists are worried that the UK might slither back from its international commitment to create an ecologically coherent network of sites.
And yet behind the arguments about the quid pro quo of a coalition package lies a modest slither of psephological self-interest.
Unlike recreational skiers, who tend to slither at turns, class skiers seek to check the slide to keep up their speed.
Rowe's backwoods runs require skiers to slither through tight tree lines on slopes steep enough to warrant a double-black-diamond rating out West.
We slither down a steep hill and I see the narrow bridge of tree trunks down in the valley ahead of me with some trepidation.
In a community project with just a slither of outside funding, local people got together to build their own sewers, contributing both money and labour.
First, he says, it looks like cosmic justice is being served, but then the worms turn, literally, and begin to slither out of the frog's mouth or nose.
If you dislike stories about parasitic worms that slither out of the noses of frogs, put your hands on your ears and say, la-la-la-la-la-la for about 90 seconds.
Many in the firm wanted to slither out of the agreement, but Mr Weinberg thought that would send the worst kind of signal: that Goldman might let a client down.
Displayed in a glass case along the wall, Tom Ford's snakeskin boot in autumn-leaf browns (Gucci, 2000) so supple that it seems to slither invokes the serpent and his insinuating seduction of Eve.
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President Bush said last week bin Laden "may have tried to slither out into neighboring Pakistan, " but Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said he is "reasonably sure" bin Laden is not in his country.
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