Word: slim
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...little choice but to sound conciliatory, even if it does not budge an inch just yet. After last week's meeting with G.O.P. congressional leaders, one White House aide described the visitors' views on the chances of the President's budget being passed as "twofold: slim and none." In his continuing campaign to stir up proposals to pare the President's whopping deficits, Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker himself suggested a temporary surtax of 5% to 10% on individual income taxes in 1982. The plan would net an estimated $37 billion...
Protecting a slim lead after the first two days of the Women's Eastern Seaboard Championships at Blodgett Pool, Princeton splashed past Pittsburgh and Penn State in the meet's final day Saturday to win the title comfortably...
...times, the Crimson has shown that it is able to compete. The other night, for example, the cagers look on a previously 13-2 St. Anselms and lost by a relatively slim six point margin. However, there have been too many contests--like last Saturday's 78-45 defeat at the hands of a Yale squad with a decidedly unimpressive 6-10 record--in which mediocre squads have totally annihilated a hapless Harvard five...
MAINLY, THE CUBE is a conversation piece, like the wastebasket collages of Picasso and Braque. It may or may not reflect the dimensionality of man's existence, the shape of our times, or the pretentiousness of slim gold-tipped cigarettes. A bauble that combines the simplicity of pet rocks with engineering savvy, the Cube gratifies our desire for bric-a-brac. In a society where even most of the poor can watch television dreams, the struggle for survival which engages most of humanity can be less squarely faced. Accordingly, boredom, especially the middle class Roman kind which languidly consumers grapes...
...Harvard men's track team will be fighting for third place in tomorrow's Greater Boston Track Championships at the ITT at 1 p.m. Boston University took a slim one point (22-21) over Northeastern, last night after four field events and the preliminaries were completed...