Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thoroughly has ideology taken over that the possibility of reasonable change that comes from young people succeeding their elders is faint. This deep-seated ideology, combined with the perception on the part of whites that Black, majority rule would mean their peril, makes the odds for peaceful reform slim indeed...
Andropov's blast certainly killed any remaining slim chance that the NATO-backed deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe will not begin, as scheduled, in December. Once that happens, the Administration's entire arms control philosophy will face an acid test. Either the new U.S. missile presence will pressure the Soviets to bargain more seriously in Geneva, as the Administration has long predicted they would, or the U.S.S.R. will carry out its threats to employ "countermeasures"-and the superpower arms race will be off and running anew...
Last week Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated a small, simple device that can do many of the jobs now done by vacuum tubes. Called a "Transistor," it is a slim metal cylinder about an inch long. Inside are two hair-thin wires whose points press, two-thousandths of an inch apart, on a pinhead of germanium...
...most to open up the vistas of vastus lateralis is Andre Courreges, 41, the brightest new star in the Paris firmament. Courreges set up his shop in 1961, soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in white dresses cut three inches above the knee and mid-calf boots open at the toe. The high-flying hem was born...
...slipped as the year progressed, and frequent replacement elections proved necessary as members resigned. Now, barely 130 candidates want to serve on the 87-seat council. And about one-fourth of those running are incumbents, which further suggests that the numbers interested in the council's business are a slim percentage of the campus...