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“The Chair Company” allows us to see how anyone might fall down the chutes into which Robinson’s Joe Average easily slides.

But Harriet Dyer strolls through the sliding doors like she’s walking into another shift at work as the soothing automated voice directs harried visitors trying to get their driver’s licenses or transfer car titles.

"The world has avoided a tit-for-tat slide into trade war -- so far," she added.

A retired security officer who served for years with the Palestinian Authority in Gaza said he feared the territory was sliding towards another round of internal bloodshed.

Stocks have rebounded quickly from market slides in recent years.