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Word: slim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibility of a coup from the more moderate Peronists, with whom the military has been shuffling the nation's control since 1943, seems slim. Although the majority of urban workers and professionals are Peronists, many interviewed are afraid of participating in a violent insurrection...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: Somewhere in Argentina... | 9/17/1980 | See Source »

...With a slim one-game lead, the Expos cannot afford to wax complacent. Nothing, however, can compare to the ordeal of last September, when the division crown narrowly eluded the squad which played 31 games in 28 days...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Pennant Race Goes North of the Border | 9/16/1980 | See Source »

...chances of students commanding substantial influence in such sensitive areas as tenuring appear slim. Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House and a member of the Dowling Committee, says that the committee will consider all areas of discontent that are brought to its attention, but that it is "unlikely" the committee would favor student participation in tenure decisions. Then again, Kiely won't rule out any possibility. "I can't say what we'll do. I hardly even know the other people on the committee...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Auditions for the Assembly | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...chances of students commanding substantial influence in such sensitive areas as tenuring appear slim. Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House and a member of the Dowling Committee, says that the committee will consider all areas of discontent that are brought to its attention, but that it is "unlikely" the committee would favor student participation in tenure decisions. Then again, Kiely won't rule out any possibility. "I can't say what we'll do. I hardly even know the other people on the committee...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Auditions for the Assembly | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...Cubans still remaining in centers throughout the country are to be concentrated in Fort Chaffee, Ark. But for the great majority of Fort McCoy's refugees, the move probably will mean only that they will be submerged in a larger pool of Cubans who are seeking U.S. sponsors Slim as their chances have been for getting out of Fort McCoy, the hardened refugees from Wisconsin may find that their prospects of being released from Fort Chaffee are even worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Camp of Fear in Wisconsin | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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