Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...store of bacchanalian lore and Harvard Yard reminiscences is pretty slim. I did have my first boyfriend and my first hangover that year, but I can't frame a piece on my entire first year around those events. No, what distinguishes my first year at Harvard is a rather undistinguishable kind of contentment. I was just plain happy...
While both sides expect to have a contract before the start of the academic year, observers say there is a slim possibility of a strike if they do not reach an agreement by then. A strike could dramatically slow the University's operation, especially during the beginning of classes...
Cafe Algiers offers an alternative for those who find stand-up comedy too gauche. A veritable mecca for the cultural elite, the Algiers is a good place to chat about your favorite post-colonialist scholar or huddle in a corner with some slim, tragic French novel. But the coffee and desserts, though expensive, are tasty enough to attract less intense visitors. Especially good is the "Arabian toast" (sticky triangles of pita bread, and the house specialty, a greenish coffee served with lots of whipped cream...
...formal passing of the mantle of office, but the moment was telling. Front-running presidential candidate Fidel Ramos was paying a postelection call on outgoing President Corazon Aquino, whose endorsement was largely responsible for the slim lead he now holds in the ballot count of the seven-candidate race. As the pair emerged from their meeting, the normally deferential former Defense Secretary confidently stepped forward to field reporters' questions, leaving Aquino nodding in the background...
...Alice K. Wolf finishes first in balloting for the Cambridge City Council. Wolf recieved 2000 more "number one" votes than her nearest rival, Walter J. Sullivan. With the victory of Wolf and four other incumbents, the Cambridge Civic Association-endorsed councillors are able to hold onto their slim majority for the second year...