Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...philosophical value aside, though, the system is unusually hard on candidates' nerves. The ballots must be counted, transferred, and re-counted more than a dozen times before the winners are all identified. And the margins of victory or loss can be hair-raisingly slim, so even relatively secure incumbents have reason to be nervous...
...bitter city hall contest, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode held a slim lead over former Mayor Frank Rizzo in his bid for a second term. With 92 percent of the ballots counted, Goode was gaining 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for Rizzo, a former two-term Democrat who switched...
...however, which involves active steps toward direct killing. And he would have doctors provide the elderly with greater relief of their suffering and more home care and support. He would also increase medical resources devoted to defective newborns, the now hopeless victims of AIDS or any nonaged patient with slim chances of recovery. "A 35-year-old has not had a chance to live out a full life-span," he says. "Some research may come along in time to save them -- we don't know that they are all going to die." Callahan carefully avoids setting a flat cutoff...
When the UAW first banded with HUCTW in 1979,the organizing effort was based in the MedicalSchool Area. In an election called by the UAW in1981, the union lost by a slim margin, gaining 47percent of the workers' support
...always said it was the devil's music. So why shouldn't the father of '50s rock 'n' roll look like every white kid's slumber-party dream of Satan? A slim body, supple as sin. Wavy hair, drenched in Valvoline and just full enough to hide those telltale horns. A face already etched with pain and promises. Cocoa-color skin drawn taut over Jack Palance cheekbones. A smile that offered a great time on the way down. Chuck Berry might sing about School Days and Johnny B. Goode, but teens knew that his songs -- from the opening guitar riff...