Word: slimmed
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...eyes and that radical pug nose, one senses big ambition. Alive on Arrival, his heel-kicking 1978 debut, moved zealous writers to compare Forbert with classic heartland American music-makers the likes of Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers. Then came Jackrabbit Slim, the 1979 follow-up, a helping of string and chorus-sweetened love songs, and the critics scooped their superlatives back again...
...tantalizing development of the 1980 presidential race is that while the national polls, on which most public attention is focused, give Reagan a slim lead in the popular vote, the former California Governor seems to be well ahead in the state-by-state tally of electoral votes that determines who wins the White House. A TIME survey shows that Reagan now has a firm lead in states with 93 electoral votes, and that states with 222 more votes are leaning his way. In contrast, Carter is safely ahead in states with only 54 votes and has an edge in those...
Another movement that helped to unite disparate residents was the campaign against "demon rum." for years, the city had defeated by slim margins attempts to deny liquor licenses, usually on economic grounds. But as the number of Catholic immigrants swelled, it became almost inevitalbe that temperance would prevail; as two historians writing at the turn of the century said, "One public service of the church deserves special mention, namely its assistance to the cause of temperance and clean speech. Most of the churches have strong temperance organizations which have already rendered good service in the movement to control the liquor...
Despite the clergy's opposition, Frank won the nomination by a slim margin of 4,499 votes. More than half of his support came from the richer and less Catholic eastern end of the district. Said Frank: "I sometimes felt as though I was wrestling a tag team, with different people coming into the ring against me." Winning the district's Democratic nomination is usually tantamount to election. Moreover, Frank's Republican opponent is little known: retired Army Dentist Richard Jones, 45, a conservative from the town of Harvard, who opposes gun control and federal funding...
...small mining claims were filed in California last month, and as many as 100,000 part-time prospectors now sift through the gravel beds of streams and rivers looking for nuggets that the Forty-Niners left behind. Big companies are having luck but individual miners say that pickings are slim...