Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former superior, Sister Maureen Mulcrone: "All men are making decisions. All women are being decided upon." Saying that they were "deeply saddened" and "profoundly disturbed" by the Vatican's decision, national leaders of the Sisters of Mercy are considering some sort of appeal, although chances of success are slim...
...grim. I'm not going to turn around 16 years from now and have my 18-year-old daughter say, 'Hi, Dad, where have you been all my life?' So I'm about to jump off the train. I've got this slim chance right now to decide what I want...
...year's worth in the space of ten minutes Sunday, owing to the suspense of this year's Eastern Spring. First came the early stages of the race, with four or five boats jockeying for the lead. By the 1000-meter mark, the halfway point, Harvard had established a slim lead, but it was still anybody's race...
...slim, eloquent man, Lawson is aware that the dreadlocks he wears may compound the probability that police will stop him. But he has no intention of cutting them, though they have no religious significance to him as they do for the Rastafarians of Jamaica; he just does not like combing and fussing with his hair. "I'm very accustomed to doing what I want to," he says. So he will continue his walking, and if police arrest him under a new law, he is prepared to take the necessary legal journey back to the Supreme Court...
After 25 minutes, Harvard held a slim 4-2 lead...