Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streak was broken when Crimson sophomore Steve Gerstung was pinned in the 158-pound weight class, giving Harvard a slim one-point lead (13-12) with four matches remaining...
...20th century," he maintains. "We should sweep away scruples and allow our epicurean instincts full rein." Susan Powter would surely throw down her barbells, but such appealing heresy has made Montignac Europe's newest diet guru. His book Je Mange, Donc Je Maigris! -- I Eat, Therefore I Slim -- dominated France's best-seller lists for an unprecedented 106 weeks, selling 1.1 million copies and leading to translations in five other European countries and Japan. A U.S. edition is planned for next year...
...prosecution acknowledged yesterday that the likelihood of a conviction is slim. A source close to the case said that assistant district attorney Mark A. Eichler had offered to continue the matter without a finding. The defense, confident of victory, declined the request...
...three hundred years after the close of the trials, the excesses the "possessed" spawned appall us. One wonders how people could be convicted to death on such slim evidence, and one feels grateful that our modern legal system is not so vulnerable to gross error. But in fact, some seem to say, the injustices of Salem are not so remote; the people now accusing childhood authority figures of sexual abuse based on previously repressed memories are perhaps as deceived as the possessed children of Salem were. Their imaginations, too, might be out of control...
...political than scholarly, the school now requires all undergraduates, whatever their ethnicity or major, to study at least three out of five cultural groups: Asians, Latinos, Native Americans, African Americans and Europeans. The explicit goal: to move away from an "Anglocentric" curriculum toward one that validates other cultures, however slim their connection with America's past, as equally and essentially American...