Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chances are slim. Harvard is the only team without a league...
Holy Cross's hopes for victory were slim at this point, but when one of the Crusader defenders inadvertently shot the ball into her own net, the team's hopes were dashed. Ambinder received credit for the goal. A proven Crusader-slayer, Ambinder has scored two goals against the Crusaders in each of the past two seasons...
Paul Tsongas, the only declared contender for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination, may have some unlikely company. Associates of JERRY BROWN say the former California Governor yearns for elective office and is nursing a slim hope that his state's anticlimactic June primary could be advanced to March, when it would be a better springboard. Still more improbable is the gathering of support for consumer gadfly RALPH NADER. "I'm a citizen, not a politician," protests the lonely crusader. But he has yet to disavow his followers' efforts to get his name on the Democratic slate...
This summer President Bush's nomination of Clarence Thomas has unexpectedly plunged the nation even deeper into the pool of first principles. America finds itself debating natural law. An enthusiasm for something called "natural law" is one of the repeated themes in Thomas' slim collection of writings and speeches. What he means by natural law and what uses he would put it to as a life-tenured Supreme Court Justice are not clear. This justifiably alarms some people, who are worried that "natural law" could become an excuse for a conservative judge to impose his political agenda -- just as conservatives...
...good news. Even though summer pickings are slim, they are getting more interesting. With the audiences smaller and the stakes lower, the networks can afford to experiment more aggressively than they do during the regular season. So far this summer we've seen Norman Lear get religion (in CBS's Sunday Dinner); a former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, get a prime- time showcase (in five low-rated NBC specials); and CBS News invade the courtroom for a new reality series, Verdict. Three even more atypical offerings will debut in the next two weeks. Each would probably be regarded...