Word: slim
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Maryland Coach Sue Tyler disagreed. "The playoffs chances are relatively slim for Harvard," she said. "When number seven beats number ten at home, it's no big deal...
...Memos for the Next Millenium is a slim and dense book. Calvino discusses every form of narrative, from the prose poems of Francis Ponge and the micro-essays of Jorge Luis Borges (quickness) to the encyclopedic and incomplete novels of Robert Musil and Carlo Emilio Gadda (multiplicity). He addresses a variety of literary problems. In his essay on visibility, for example, he contrasts visual and verbal imaginations, examining the prefabricated images of the mass media and their control over how we create pictures from words and words from pictures...
Harvard will remain the most expensive Ivy League school in the next academic year, but only by a slim margin. Tuition and fees at Dartmouth will reach $18,199 next year, a rise of 6.5 percent. Tuition at Yale will rise 6.1 percent to $18,060, and Princeton students will pay $17,967, 6.2 percent more than they paid for their sojourns in New Jersey last year...
...pretty good shape," said Tony Tsakakis, spokesman for the Dukakis campaign in Milwaukee. He said the latest polls show Dukakis with a slim but significant lead with 43 percent support to Jackson's 35 percent...
Coming into the final program, Thomas held a slim lead over Witt, with Manley a distant third. Relying on the same ritual that had brought her so much luck two nights earlier, Thomas pounded the hands of Coach Alex McGowan with her fists. "This is your moment," he encouraged. "Now do it!" Alas for Debi, she didn't. Maybe it was the pressure. Maybe it was the ice, which she had complained about earlier in the week. Or maybe it was the fact that she skated last and had a hard time staying at her peak as the evening dragged...