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Word: slim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attention has centered on the Law Review since it adopted its affirmative action program by a slim margin last February. The plan permits consideration of race and sex in the selection of eight of the 40 members chosen every year...

Author: By Lewis J. Liman, | Title: Wait Until Next Year | 5/8/1981 | See Source »

...other teams to crush are Providence and the University of Rhode Island, both of whom have beaten the Crimson by slim margins this season. Sophomore Jon Mose predicted that if everyone is in top form, Harvard should sweep the tournament...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Golfers Break Tie, Beat Big Green | 5/6/1981 | See Source »

...husband runs a movie house specializing in kiddie porn; her daughter trucks around with vicious punks; her son is a criminally insane foot fetishist. Only Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), Francine's dream lover, offers any hope for spiritual regeneration, for he is everything her husband is not: handsome, slim, roughly debonair, and the owner of an art drive-in that shows Marguerite Duras triple bills. Best of all, he is in love with her . . . or so it seems. Francine should have known something would go wrong. She has, literally, a nose for trouble-and so has the film. Polyester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lights! Camera! Pittsburgh! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...diminishing rapidly over his nearest rival, John Steen, a wealthy insurance executive from the city's heavily Anglo North Side. At stake: the opportunity to make Cisneros, despite a tantalizingly close race, the first Mexican-American mayor of a major American city. "Now is the time, compadres," the slim, Harvard-educated city councilman told them simply. "If on the day after the election I hear you saying 'Poor Henry, if only I had known you needed my help,' I think I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Is the Time, Compadres | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...guys felt that there was a non-effort among the heavier girls towards losing weight and it was starting to affect them in the pool. I feel that if I look at a girl and she doesn't appear fit, then she has a responsibility to the team to slim down...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Two Sides of the Same Coin | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

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