Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saxophone lick from DJ Kool's party anthem "Let Me Clear My Throat" on the track "B. M. Funkster." A solid contribution to the drum 'n bass catalogue and a good choice for the budding electronic music fan looking to explore the world beyond the Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim...
...majority needed to override Clinton's promised veto. Before abortion-rights proponents had a chance to process that close call, the Senate raised the stakes with another, purely symbolic vote. By a startling 51-47 margin, the Senate went on the record in support of Roe v. Wade; the slim majority gave champions of the 1973 law a sobering glance at challenges ahead. "This is going to be an absolutely huge issue in the elections," Barbara Boxer told the Associated Press...
...final ten minutes of the game, while the Harvard defense was nursing a slim one-goal lead, Kalil and Nagle alone sustained the Harvard offense, allowing the rest of Harvard's attackers to control the midfield and prevent a B.C. breakout...
...brother's cut-rate encyclopedia, suspiciously slim volumes that I would ransack for sixth-grade book report roughage, featured an innovative learning tool under the entry on the Human Body: seven consecutive pages of transparencies, each devoted to a different organic system. Page 1's skin'n'hair'n'nails fit neatly over Page 2's spindly circulation road map which in turn lay on Page 3's inexplicably adipose-yellow GI tracts or Halloween skeleton man, and so on. At a glance, you saw and saw through man instantly, as through, yes, X-ray specs, a three-dimensional simultaneity...
...part of the University, Radcliffe can slim down a number of now-redundant positions. Harvard, for instance, will manage Radcliffe's sizeable endowment portfolio, eliminating the need for a separate manager in Fay House...