Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chances of a peaceful transition to civilian rule under Aristide are slim. A similar peace plan collapsed a year ago after all sides had signed on. So far, the international observers have secured only $1 million in funds, enough to support 50 people for three months...
Tuesday's game against the Friars--considered by many to be the best team in women's hockey--gave a large confidence boost to the Crimson (4-7) which lost by a slim 2-1 margin after leading 1-0 going into the third period...
...anticipated that voters would see him as a servant to cronyism. It is still unclear whether the initiative for the pardons came from Bush himself, from aides, or from friends in the last administration. Now that he has lost the election, Bush has nothing to lose except a very slim chance...
...perhaps, quite so serious as Harry E. Figgie Jr. believes. Figgie is the author, along with University of Arizona economics professor Gerald J. Swanson, of a slim best seller titled Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It (Little, Brown; $19.95). If you want a really good holiday-season scare, be sure to pick up this half-baked Figgie pudding of doomsday scenarios and vague nostrums. The tone is set in the first two startling sentences of the introduction: "In 1995," Figgie writes, "the United States of America, as we know it today, will cease...
THEY OUGHT TO CHANGE THE COMPANY'S name to Phoenix. Orion Pictures has risen from the ashes of its bankruptcy to release a few good movies. The first is LOVE FIELD, a slim but affecting drama named for the Dallas airport where John F. Kennedy's plane landed on Nov. 22, 1963. Michelle Pfeiffer, glitzed up and dumbed down, is a restless housewife who vows to attend the President's funeral in Washington; Dennis Haysbert is the mysterious black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve...