Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this stag banquet, the pickings -- or leavings -- for women were slim. They got to play wives and invalids, to judge from this year's five Oscar nominees for Best Actress. Oh, yes, Mary McDonnell in Passion Fish, Susan Sarandon in Lorenzo's Oil, Emma Thompson in Howards End, Catherine Deneuve in Indochine and Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field all played strong, exemplary idealists. The actresses all received critical plaudits. But what is the sound of two hands clapping in a nearly empty theater, when other rooms in the multiplex are filled with crowds cheering for teenage turtles and the righteous...
...there haven't been enough doctors. But he was never too busy for the women. He was a very sweet, caring man, who was very much devoted to seeing that women kept all their rights." When he finished his clinic work in Pensacola, Gunn would drop in on the Slim Concept Weight Control center and give free counseling on diets and fitness. Says Paula Leonard: "All he wanted was to help women. He wanted women to have a choice, and he died...
...market by 70% in the past three years. For example, Bethlehem Steel began laying off workers in 1986. Yet its stock has fallen 50%, in contrast to a rise of 48% by the S&P 500. Monsanto started cutting its work force in 1985, but its stock rose a slim 30%. Clearly these were troubled companies that would probably have suffered sluggish stock prices in any event, but the study indicates that cutting labor costs did not make Wall Street forgive their more deep-seated problems...
...club voted to adopt the stance by a slim 23-21-2 margin, after a controversial dispute over whether it should base its decision on principles or on practical membership considerations...
CROATS LIVING IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA HAD accepted it willingly. So had Muslims, though with reservations. What was needed for the nine-point plan to offer even a slim chance of peace to a country wracked by war was approval by Bosnian Serbs. That happened Wednesday at the ski resort of Pale, 10 miles east of the besieged capital of Sarajevo, where a parliament representing Bosnia's Serbs approved the plan by a comfortable margin. Under the plan, drafted in Geneva earlier this month, the country would be divided into 10 provinces largely drawn up on ethnic lines. Bosnia would...