Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the distance bug has bit, Rogers will never stop running. Next time you're strolling along the Seine in Paris, keep a look out for a slim, blondponytailed figure with a light stride and a French history book under her arm; you can bet it's Becky Rogers...
...Javits remains to the finish, New Yorkers might see a repeat of the 1970 election in which a split liberal vote meant the election of conservative James Buckley by a slim plurality
...elections in the 50 states and the District of Columbia; the winner has to assemble a combination of 270 or more electoral votes. Estimates by TIME correspondents show Reagan leading in states with 246 electoral votes, Carter in states with only 159. But many of the leads are so slim that Republican Pollster Robert Teeter estimates that a swing of a mere 3% in the national popular vote could switch states with 200 electoral votes-a remarkable number. Essentially the election is turning out exactly the way many political pros always thought it would: so close that almost anything could...
...Worse, pretax profits for the first eight months of 1980 plummeted to $78,000, from $3.6 million for the same period in 1979. Finally, because of a tangled financial scheme originally designed by a Bonfils heir to prevent the paper from falling into outsiders' hands, even those slim profits have been drained off to support part of Denver's new cultural center. Post Publisher Donald Seawell, 68, has long insisted that the paper was in great shape, but his reporters were not so sure, especially after the Post was put on the market five months...
...Faculty members are Black, four are Hispanic and 12 are Asian American; 12 senior Faculty members are women. It didn't take a five-month-long study to confirm the obvious--that no matter what department you are in, your chances of encountering anything but white, male professors are slim. But the report on minority and women Faculty members, released this week, does more than present data; it looks between the rows and columns of figures to examine the reasons underlying the sad statistics...