Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Additional funding for more officers will have to be approved by the administration before these more expensive initiatives can be implemented, Johnson said. But $50,000 to $60,000 per officer, the possibility of passing them is slim...
...nine city councillors quit today and resigned, the chance of me being elected are slim," he added. "The majority of my votes are in the exhausted pile...
...traditionally been united most strongly behind its support for rent control. The group has maintained a slim majority on the council, and that majority has been vital to opposing initiatives by indepenent members over the past quarter century to reverse rent control...
...chipmaker that provides the brains behind many of its PCs: Intel. Big Blue announced that it will stop shipping personal computers using the Pentium chip because its problems are more significant than previously stated. Intel discovered a problem last summer in its chip but says the probability is so slim -- once every 27,000 years -- that it unlikely to cause problem. "We believe no one should have to wonder about the integrity of data calculated on IBM PCs," G. Richard Thoman, an IBM senior vice president, said in a statement. Intel, meanwhile, labeled the IBM move "unwarranted." While the announcement...
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, on a new crusade to slim down the one-third of Americans believed to be overweight, kicked off his "Shape Up America!" campaign at a White House ceremony today. At his side: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, with whom he joined forces on health care reform. Launch of the non-profit Koop Foundation's effort was timed to follow a report from the Institute of Medicine describing the difficulties of shedding pounds and attacking commercial weight-loss programs for causing ineffective yo-yo dieting. But outside the White House, a group of marchers criticized...