Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to say she's kind of radical," confided Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, as he watched the slim, white hull slide down the ways of City Island, N.Y. Along with 500 well-wishers, Mosbacher was on hand last week for the launching of Intrepid, the 12-meter yacht he will skipper against Australia in the America's Cup this fall. It took only half an eye to see that she was a far cry from the old Weatherly Bus sailed to victory against the Aussies' Gretel in 1962-or for that matter, from any other 12-meter ever...
Hello, Dole. Such mitun has proved too muscular, even for a country that has boasted an astounding average annual growth rate of 10% since 1951. Instead of easing to a planned-for 7½%, growth plunged to a slim 1.2% last year. Corporate profits fell 15%, while unemployment, once virtually nonexistent, has risen to 10% of the labor force, or 99,000 workers. Population growth virtually halted as 12,000 Israelis, in the biggest exodus since the country was founded, emigrated in search of work. Even more startling were the queues at unemployment offices, when some 2,000 dispirited workers...
...week is not entitled to an advis ory opinion that he may safely ignore it on the seventh." Had Powell come to New" York and got himself arrested, there was a strong possibility that Harlem would have erupted in rioting-and that would hardly have enhanced his already slim chances of reinstatement in the 90th Congress...
...shadows on the moonlit grass. He is Jorge Luis Borges, 67, who has been hailed in his own country as the greatest living writer in Spanish, though only a few of his books (Ficciones, Dreamti-gers) have been translated into English. All told, his international reputation rests on three slim volumes. These new selections are a collage of fables, parables, essays and poems-the ones he chooses to be judged...
With most of the winter season completed, Holworthy continues to lead the race for the freshman intramural crown. The Yard's perennial "jock" dorm increased its slim fall lead to a margin of more than fifty points over second place Matthews South...