Word: slimmed
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...students at the College, the Law School and the K-School to demand that the name of the exchange program be changed. K-School administrators have agreed to meet with student leaders to discuss the issues, but they maintain that the chances of succumbing to the demands is very slim. The charges against McCloy have been raised before and cleared to their satisfaction. "McCloy is a great man, and unless any new charges are unearthed, there is no reason why he shouldn't be honored," says Guido Goldman, director of the Center for European Studies. Goldman will direct the scholarship...
...only at the English-speaking universities that anything even remotely approaching equality has been preserved. Thirteen percent of the students at these four universities last year were Black, Asian, or "colored." But apartheid's foes believe that the proposed new system is aimed at cutting even this slim number...
...much blame for this latest outbreak of hit-and-run political murder. True, it was a splinter faction led by one of Arafat's worm enemies that ordered the slaying and took credit for it soon after. But it was Arafat himself who had effectively undermined Sartawi's already slim chances of survival last February when he abruptly removed the doctor from the speaker's list at the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers and then ejected him from the session entirely. Arafat made it clear to every delegate present that Sartawi's brand of diplomatic realism would never...
Still clearly behind in a city in which voters are overwhelmingly Democratic and 41% are black, Epton, a millionaire lawyer, nevertheless now has a fighting, if slim, chance. Running on the slogan, EPTON FOR MAYOR-BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, he assailed Washington's conviction in 1972 for income tax evasion and added: "If it were my minority group, I'd be ashamed of this candidate." Said Washington: "If they [blacks] get the feeling that this is going to turn into a race war, then it might turn bitter, evil and angry...
...figure-skating team and has managed to get its products designated the "official soups" of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The new, thinner Campbell kids are appropriately garbed as skaters, skiers and bobsledders. Admits Paul Mulcahy, Campbell's managing director for advertising: "We've slimmed them down a bit, and we'll gradually slim them down a bit more." He vows, however, that "the kids will never be skinny...