Word: slim
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...cost health care is only a myth tossed around by politicians running for reelection. There are countries in Africa and Asia with lower infant mortality rates than those of some American cities. Job opportunities out-side of the gangs are slim to nonexistent. Meanwhile, inner-city residents are expected to respect a police force that only comes into the neighborhood to arrest someone, and to have faith in a system that works against them...
Harnett's life is slim pickings for the biographer. The son of an immigrant Irish shoemaker from Cork, he lived in Philadelphia, worked in New York City as a journeyman artist and engraver, studied briefly in Munich, showed his pictures in beer halls as well as in art galleries, and died of kidney failure at the age of 44 without leaving a single recorded comment on his art or, indeed, on anything else, beyond declaring that "I endeavour to make the composition tell a story." But one may be fairly sure that if his ghost saw the Met's catalog...
...referendum, held in response to petitions calling for Clark's absence from commencement, offered the Dean only a slim margin of endorsement, with a significant minority saying that Clark should not take part...
With the Republican Convention four months away, WISH List leaders are directing their energy toward raising money and getting candidates elected. Other pro-abortion rights groups have launched a campaign to force a change in the party platform's antiabortion language. Their chance of success is slim because George Bush is sticking to his antiabortion stance to placate conservatives. That rigid stand could trigger a revolt by Republican women who are threatening to cross party lines to support candidates who favor the right to abortion. "All my adult life I have been a devoted Republican woman," says Harriett Wieder...
...number of tenures--just 12 percent of those who entered the faculty eight years ago, and 25 percent of those who underwent preliminary review--demonstrates the slim chances of junior faculty members receiving tenure...