Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite these changes, could the turbulence of 1969 happen again on campus, should a new galvanizing issue arise? Some, like Peretz, say the chances of a reprise are slim: "Students today are interested in action about issues, like nuclear proliferation or Central America," he says, "but they're not interested in using the University as a vehicle for their protests...
...Florida, was so convinced that he could turn around Pan American World Airways that he made a daring bet. If the airline failed to make money on its 1983 operations, Acker would forgo his chairman's salary of $475,000. Acker won his bet. Pan Am had a slim operating profit of $52.4 million last year, vs. a loss of $314.5 million in 1982. Predicts Acker: "We will continue to improve service by every means possible. We are going to move forward with even stronger results in the coming year...
...wish to walk barefoot on the grass and some day to live normally in the world. For this hope David, 12, and his family took the ultimate gamble: they traded the safety of a germ-free plastic bubble at Houston's Texas Children's Hospital for the slim chance that a bone-marrow transplant would allow the immunologically defenseless boy to live freely. Last week they lost their gamble, and his death was felt across the country...
...three senate elections, Republicans up for reelection outnumber Democrats-19 to 14. With more ducks to shoot at, Democrat pols think they have a chance to win back the control of the senate they lost in 1980, although because they are down 55-45, the chances of this are slim...
Stunned industry leaders appeared at a loss as to what to do next. Said LTV Spokesman Julian Scheer: "We had no contingency plans. We expected to get approval." McGrath held out a slim hope that the Justice Department might approve moves short of merger, such as swapping plants or joint raw material purchases. But that is a long way from the corporate marriage that LTV and Republic wanted...