Word: slim
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Even on Election Day, we could see reviewed the performances of presiden-polls in droves, and Mr. Nobody won not just a plurality but a slim majority of the eligible public's support. There are reasons aplenty for Americans to vote, but neither Bush or Dukakis supplied them. The reason many people did not go to the polls had nothing to do with the spiteful and negative tone surrounding the election. It had its source in the total artificiality of the issues on which the election turned...
With the union's victory comes the responsibility. The union now has to ensure that it represents not only the slim majority of workers who voted for it, but all workers. HUCTW cannot afford to bask in its victory: to truly earn its representative status the union must organize as strongly as before...
...popular vote, roughly 20,000 ballots, can yield a Knesset seat. Once again the system prevented the country from electing a strong, united government. As Gad Ya'acobi, a Laborite and Minister of Economics and Planning, noted, "We have institutionalized the tyranny of the minority." To put together a slim majority, Shamir will have to accommodate not only the four religious parties but also three extreme-right secular factions whose platforms all advocate annexing the occupied territories...
...Another scandal? The chances are slim it could happen here again," declares dentist Warren Randall, eyes fixed on his son Drew, a tackle. "This is history in the making right now." Later, young Randall, between gulps of ice water, agrees: "The problems all went before. We're starting new." Running back Stephen Thomas, a presidential scholar, reflects the new determination. "We can come back. People respect what we're trying to do now," he says. "The legacy of Eric Dickerson and Craig James only has a crack in it. But that will be forgotten...
When Callenbach created his fable about a country that sacrifices consumption in order to ensure survival, he was unable to find a publisher for the slim, 167-page novel. So he published it himself, raising the $3,500 cost from friends. "I thought it had some modest virtues and might even sell 2,500 copies." To date, worldwide sales are about half a million. The book has been translated into eight languages and has gone through eleven printings in the U.S. since Bantam Books bought the rights twelve years...