Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this comprehensive and entertaining study, Kansas Journalism Professor David Dary deflates the mythic machismo of the bunkhouse and the open range. His real cowpoke is hardly an existential drifter on the Plains. Rather, he is a common laborer beset by the pressures of a hard life and slim wages...
...final White House approval of its takeover bid, which appears likely. Lorenzo intends to keep Continental a separate airline and a subsidiary of the parent organization, Texas Air Corporation. Continental employees last week were still trying to search for ways to block Texas International, but their chances looked very slim...
...worry too much about peace reigning in Harvard Yard. If your proctor is a first-year law student, you may spend the year in relative silence; if not, feel free to crank the stereo. Don't worry, because if you're bothering another Harvard student the chances are very slim that they'll be too shy to complain. These rules exist mainly as pretexts for disciplinary action if someone really--really, really--gets out of hand, or worse, embarasses Harvard. A freshman three years ago was distilling nitroglycerine in large quantities in his bedroom, which would seem to fall under...
Almost every regulation in this slim book dates from some specific incident. Surely some 17th century professor was kept awake by a drum; when he introduced the idea of a percussion ban at the next Faculty meeting, his sensible brethren broadened it to include other "harsh instruments." And in 1969, when students finally got sick enough of the Establishment/liberal hypocrisy that allowed ROTC to stay on campus training bomber pilots, they took over the main administration building. Not only did Harvard officials roust them in a bloody pre-dawn bust, the also battled each other to see who could mouth...
...company set the closing for Aug. 7, in the slim hope that a dark-horse buyer would come forward during the two-week grace period. Otherwise the nation's capital will be left with only one major newspaper, the Washington Post (daily circ. 618,000). This was cause for mourning in a city where decision makers depend on a full and vigorous airing of important public issues. "An extremely sad day," said President Ronald Reagan. Added House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "We ought to have newspapers expressing opposite philosophies." Even the victor in this journalistic struggle...