Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With seven of the 14 events completed, the women held a slim 33-30 lead over their cross-town rivals...
...Administration seems on the verge of eking out slim Congressional approval of a new world trade treaty, but today, giving a last-minute bipartisan boost to the cause, President Clinton threw a White House pep rally showcasing prominent Republican and Democratic supporters. Flanked by Bush Administration Secretary of State James Baker and James Miller, Ronald Reagan's Budget Director, Clinton said theGATT agreementnot only tears down significant trade barriers, but "also bulldozes differences of party, philosophy and ideology." Driving the point home, the White House released a pro-GATT letter signed by Presidents Ford, Carter and Bush.Passage of the treaty...
Runaways who really don't want to be found quickly adopt street names, often such crude synonyms as Lunatic, Fury, Speedster or Dopey. "Never tell anybody anything, that's my rule," says a 16-year-old from Ukiah in northwestern California. The slim, blond youth -- call him Billy -- says he spent a year living in a stairwell near the Scientology center on Hollywood Boulevard after his parents kicked him out of the house: another story of drugs and alcohol and late-night fights. On a good day, Billy earns $10 panhandling; he stuffs the money in his shoe. That...
Question 9, which was passed by state voters by a slim margin of 51 to 49 percent, repealed rent control, effective January...
...strongly will today's junior faculty be committed to their departments when they know their long-term prospects are so slim? Several professors have privately told the Crimson that morale among junior faculty...