Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slim slice of cake--you can't have...
...beginning of the second half, unfortunately, Dartmouth again came out more quickly than Harvard. The Big Green surged to a 45-34 lead, and every time the Crimson attempted to slim the margin to single digits, Dartmouth's transition game would produce a quick layup or three pointer...
...among the east's disoriented youth that the trauma goes deepest. Virtually every family counts at least one member out of work, and the expectation of ever finding a decent job is slim. The institutions for transmitting values have been upended. The relationship between adults and adolescents has been shaken by the rapid shift from communism to capitalism. Explains Britta Kolberg, a social worker in east Berlin schools: "Kids see parents who were convinced socialists and are now 100% supporters of the new society. They have turned around so completely that there is a general mistrust of grownups...
Greeley's observation is contained in Lincoln on Leadership, a slim volume of 188 pages. Clinton, a quick study, could have devoured the book's central tenets in a few hours. But he carried it around for weeks, dipping in and out, rereading its advice, "learning a little," as he put it. "He keeps talking about it," said his aide, George Stephanopoulos, at the time. "It's like a private bible about how to govern...
Chernack said he was cautiously optimistic about Clinton's slim lead...