Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Donahue says the chances of a student not getting the summer job of their choice is "very slim," adding that the law firms that recruit at HLS are often the most prestigious in the country...
There was a very slim chance that if enough of the baby's intestines were viable, the doctors could keep him alive long enough to perform a bowel transplant that might save his life. Here, however, the doctor's dilemma is ethical as much as medical. Is it fair to set out on a course of treatment that would involve enormous risk and pain, a year in the hospital at least and a very difficult life thereafter? "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should," explains Dr. Goldberg. "We have to keep a level head and treat...
...columnist for The Miami Herald. His new book, Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, reads like a marriage of the opinionated, highly personal journalism of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion and the rants of Dennis Miller. One hesitates to apply the word "book" to Hiaasen's project-the slim volume bears a greater resemblance to a modern-day muckraking pamphlet, complete with attacks on the nefarious consequences of unchecked big business...
Despite the slim 1-0 lead, Yale never mountedmuch of an attack. Harvard's defense playedbrilliantly once again, and there was never a realthreat of the Elis tying the score...
...Trachsel, like Zachary, has a chance, albeit a slim one, at October glory, something McGwire, for all his individual success, does not. The record's sexiness notwithstanding, every at-bat for every Cubbie still involved in the pennant chase is at least as significant as every...