Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, while the two watched in air-conditioned comfort, New York rallied. The Mets scored two runs to slim the Chicago lead to 10-6 and proceeded to load the bases with two outs. Next up: Strawberry...
...first glance, the slim volume with the red cover that found its way into the mailboxes of a few foreigners in Beijing last week read like one of the impassioned tracts circulated by Chinese students during their protests last spring. On closer scrutiny, however, the language was far harsher than anything the students ever wrote. Deng Xiaoping, the booklet charged, "is only an opportunist" whose "erroneous leadership" has betrayed "genuine Marxism-Leninism." Unlike the students, who castigated Deng for not carrying reforms far enough, the book accuses him of hurtling mindlessly down "the capitalist road." The solution: "Overthrow that handful...
There is also a slim possibility that the referendum may not appear on the November ballot: The city election commission has been wrangling over the wording of the proposition's preamble...
...faculty committee recommended Jackson for tenure by a "preliminary" vote of 47-7, but her bid fell below the "substantial majority" needed when support dwindled to a slim 25-24 majority three weeks later...
...faculty committee recommended Jackson for tenure by a "preliminary" vote of 47-7, but her bid fell below the "substantial majority" needed when support dwindled to a slim 25-24 majority three weeks later...