Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McCain can take comfort from the fact that a day of Republican cannibalism rites (performed while Democrats looked on in bemused horror) didn?t harm his chances of picking up those votes. That?s because those chances remain at slim to none, and to mangle the old aphorism, Slim?s out back holding a fund-raiser. With McConnell the one in charge of doling out the Senate GOP?s soft money, Republicans aren?t too keen on bucking him. Still, McCain and Feingold have done their part to make the bill as simple as possible, so as to give...
...lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they say, such gambling is inherently a regressive tax on the poor, whose comparitive desperation may tempt them to fritter away precious funds for the slim chance of cashing in. "The anti-lottery contingent was painting pictures of people spending their food money on lottery tickets," says Holmes. "The pro-lottery camp chafes at the idea of government protecting adults from risky behavior, and argues that the profits from state lotteries cover crucial programs like education...
...from L.I. Slim...
...Almost sheepishly claiming that "prudence is probably the best policy," BP Amoco spokeswoman Linda McCray announced Friday that cell phone use near fuel pumps at its U.S. gas stations will now be verboten. "This is not a ban - this is a precautionary warning," she explained, pointing to the very slim possibility that a malfunctioning cell phone could generate sparks and cause an entire station - not to mention the offending gabber - to go kerblooey...
...office, wireless telephones sit next to socialist reviews. Six green leather chairs (the luxurious, deep kind that Mao always preferred) rest on yellowed linoleum floors, backed by off-blue walls. On his bookshelf, sandwiched between Chinese works on Marx, are two slim English volumes on Business Cycles. The pope wears gray polyester pants and a blue-and-white-checked shirt--short-sleeved and semitransparent so you can see his T shirt. He sips tea from an extra-large mug. Everyone else in the room drinks from a small white one, each stamped with a large red number...