Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the chances of taxing Harvard appear slim, a panel of Cambridge citizens two months ago, urged the city to take another tack. Their suggestion was to raise the rates charged Harvard and other city institutions for water, sewer hookups, and other services. Their proposal would tack the costs of Water Department administration and a percentage of all city administration costs onto the water charge: it would raise the rate for all residents, but there would be an offsetting tax reduction for everyone but the tax-exempt universities. The proposal may not pass, for city councilors don't like...
...around and discussed "topics like, 'Is there anything good about being gay?'" The organization provided a desperately needed but isolating social setting. If a gay student did not go to a GSA meeting, several members noted, the chances that he would meet another avowed gay elsewhere were slim. Most members had not, publicly "come out of the closet," and the few who had were not yet emotionally steeled to speak out politically. "They had to guilt trip somebody into being president each year," Schatz remembers...
...qualified to serve in America's most sensitive diplomatic post? His knowledge of Russian was slim, and his experience in the country was limited to five months in World War II flying lease planes from Moscow to Alaska. An editorial in the New York Times following Watson's appointment noted that it would serve as a discouragement to foreign service officers who have devoted their careers to Communist affairs but added, "Mr. Watson's service at this stage can prove useful...He has impressed Washington officials with the forceful use of (his access to President Carter) while serving as head...
...slim, soft-spoken waitress was on duty last January when it happened. Two gunmen suddenly appeared in San Salvador's Sheraton Hotel and shot to death Michael Hammer and Mark David Pearlman, two American labor lawyers, and José Rodolfo Viera, head of the country's controversial land-reform program. Despite the public nature of the killings, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth has learned that if the U.S. Government had not tracked down the waitress, bolstered her courage, persuaded her to testify and actively pressured the Salvadoran government, authorities would not have arrested Ricardo Sol Meza, a wealthy industrialist...
...ever accused Galbraith, 72, of generating much warmth from this slim ray of hope. "A commitment to losing causes," he writes, "is still a constant in my life." Perhaps. But few similarly committed public figures have succeeded as well as he. His attributes are many and formidable. The imposing intelligence and intimidating physique are obvious. His facility for understated sarcasm makes him a dangerous opponent on the podium or editorial page. Like Henry Kissinger, Galbraith can joke about his self-confidence without sinking in false modesty. Moreover, he is a diligent and productive worker...