Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is only one thing that will give the district a chance to solve its own problems and that is home rule. The chances of its passing in the next Congress seems incredibly slim; even a Republican takeover in the House would leave the Southerners with eight or nine of the 24 seats on the committee, and a sympathetic agreement with the conservatives who dominate the Republican side...
...rival called Green Shield got there first. In violent opposition, Lord Sainsbury, boss of the big Sainsbury's grocery chain, is preparing to do bitter battle against the gum-backed invaders. In the first skirmish he cut the price of bread, but his chances of holding out are slim. In the U.S. even the mighty A. & P. buckled under after years of resisting...
...virtual four-way tie for first place in the House football standings highlights the House athletic picture as the fall season enters the home stretch. Dunster is holding a slim edge in soccer competition, and Winthrop is proving itself far and away the best of the touch football teams...
...House soccer Dunster, 4-0-1, holds a slim lead over Kirkland, 3-0-2. Quincy, Leverett, Eliot, Lowell, Adams, and Winthrop fill out the league in that order...
...slim mandate, hardly designed to encourage continued highhandedness at home during Park's four-year term (although the returns had barely been announced when Park's Central Intelligence Agency rounded up 30 students on charges of plotting against the government). Defeated Opponent Yun went into hiding, but soon emerged and, in an unheard-of gesture in South Korea, sent Winner Park congratulations and flowers. Adding to Park's worries is a National Assembly election scheduled for next month, which his Democratic-Republican Party will be hard pressed to win. Neither is he expected to go overboard...