Word: slim
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...Washington, who declared that he would not "grovel" for their support and pledged during the primary campaign to strip the machine of its muscle, city hall patronage. Park District Superintendent Edmund Kelly went so far as to endorse Republican Candidate Bernard Epton, 61, a millionaire lawyer who had some slim hope of profiting from the dissension to become the first G.O.P. mayor elected since 1927. And then last week Mayor Byrne suddenly upset all the calculations by announcing that she would re-enter the race as a write-in candidate, giving those voters dismayed by Washington's nomination...
...first, things seemed to be going well. Although his chances were slim, Hernandez began actively campaigning to keep his job, signaling the White House that he could improve the agency's tarnished image. In a sharp contrast to the deep personnel and money cuts supported by Burford, he prepared supplemental budgets seeking more congressional funds. He also dismissed EPA Official Louis Cordia, who two years ago compiled a "hit list" of ideologically suspect agency employees...
Scott Fusco broke the tie 4:08 into the final stanza, scoring what proved to be his sixth game-winning goal of the season. Linemate Jim Turner dug the puck out of the corner and passed to Fusco, who put a 10-footer through a slim opening in Proulx's pads...
Proulx said the slim edge helped his goaltending. "You can met anything in," he said. "It's so tight...
REALISTICALLY, the chance for these Southern candidates in 1984 are slim. Sen. Hollings' bumperstickers were the first to appear on Washington streets last summer, but his organization in such key states as Iowa and New Hampshire appears weak. It seems doubtful that he could win the nomination in the primaries. Governor Askew is clearly running as the conservative in the field and as a fresh face. What he seems to have forgotten about 1976, however, is that Jimmy Carter, because of Watergate, could easily run on the morality issue, and that other prominent Democrats were not in the race--Wallace...