Not only does he need to turn around a Chelsea team that is slipping down the table, he also needs to do it in double-quick time and while improving the bottom line, which effectively means curtailing salaries and transfer expenditure.

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Premiums are already slipping for some classes of insurance, so the 2003 profits may turn out to have been a peak.

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With her physical capabilities slipping away, Massagee, 53, thought there was nowhere else to turn.

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If we could hang in there it had to turn, surely, but thanks to Adam Gilchrist it kept slipping away.

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