Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appeasement. Erstwhile murderer-torturer-rapists deserving nothing less than violent eviction (even if the invasion violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter's smile and hunger for a Nobel Prize, honorable men. General Cedras has a "slim and very attractive" wife, Carter told the New York Times. And Lady Macbeth was a gracious hostess. Cedras, a notably bloody and ruthless man on a bloody, miserable island, should go and teach Carter's Sunday school class sometime. Carter, citizen of the world, seems to have missed class...
...chances of Beavis and Butthead getting into Harvard College seem pretty slim. But Harvard Business School, on the other hand, is no problem...
...transplanted from one family member to another," says Joel Newman, spokesman for the United Network for Organ Sharing in Richmond, Virginia, which maintains a nationwide registry of 35,000 requests for organ donations, about 3,000 of them for hearts. "While the odds of this occurring are extremely slim, this puts a human face on a real problem for thousands of people awaiting organs. You can save lives by donating...
...campus center would be a major improvement," says Benjamin D. Wildasin '97. "Other schools have nice ones, but I think given the area they're using, the chance of Harvard's being a real center is pretty slim...
...looking though the course book, and the pickings in American history were really slim," she says. "It was just a whole semester of nothing...