Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from that point, Bob Ferry's two 10 and 12-ft. jumpers and Harvard's 10 for 10 free throw shooting down the stretch--Carrabino poured in six of them--nullified each Princeton field goal. Never again would the cagers relinquish their slim advantage...
Without a personal political organization or an outspoken stand on national issues. Connolly appears to have only a slim chance, although he is the only candidate who can claim a Boston base of support...
More nettlesome was a planned accord on nuclear cooperation that would permit China to buy U.S. nuclear reactors and fuel for peaceful purposes. The agreement fell prey to Chinese misgivings over the congressionally mandated requirement that nuclear material not be reprocessed or transferred without U.S. approval. Prospects are slim that a compromise agreement can be worked out in time for Reagan's scheduled visit to Peking in April. Nonetheless. Administration officials were cheered by Zhao's verbal assurances that China intends to abide by the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which it has refused to sign...
...N.F.L. who does not feign piety, and he is one of just two (Cincinnati's Paul Brown is the other) whose understanding of the game is profound. A middle-age rock 'n' roller in a '50s hairdo and a black leather jacket, Davis casts a slim shadow, but it managed to cover elephantine Coach John Madden for ten years. After five seasons, including the championship year of 1980, current Head Coach Tom Flores remains a minor presence...
...give A plus 3 just so my technique can dazzle the audience. In fact, I relieve that they are moved by the strucyure of the work, not by an actor going through hoops and dancing on high wires." They are indeed moved. With his slim, saturnine good looks, Irons (best known as Charles Ryder in Brideshead...