The Surface slate is on the skids in retail, as are Windows 8 computers.

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According to a spate of recent media reports, Iran's economy is on the skids.

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The very next year he fell off the list, and he's been on the skids ever since.

FORBES: Follow-Through

AMD, the perennial second banana to Intel in microprocessors and memory products, is on the skids again.

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Years ago, Muldoon, tortured in love and with his career in disarray, had been the one on the skids and flailing.

NEWYORKER: After the Movie

The carnival atmosphere of a Southern Culture on the Skids show owes something to wild-man singer Hasil Adkins, whose releases include 1985's Chicken Walk and the retrospective Poultry in Motion.

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From here on, though, the drama deflates, and we are left with the grinding, post-traumatic account of a relationship on the skids, set in a London that feels sickly with rain and spent light.

NEWYORKER: Enduring Love

For a clubhouse they loaded the abandoned Tipton train depot on skids and installed it behind the first tee.

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Thanks to this approach it stands on firmer ground when the market skids.

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The lower marine riser package has been separated, and they're putting it on latching skids getting ready to move it closer to shore.

CNN: Public may not see failed blowout preventer from BP oil well

Which is indeed what the police are doing when they take all those pictures, measure tire skids and so on.

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