Word: slimming
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...Postscript to the Name of the Rose emerges as a sort of printed faculty dinner conversation with Umberto Eco. The slim volume costs $8.95, about double the price of the original's paperback edition. Still, that's a bell of a lot cheaper than flying to Italy to catch Professor Eco's office hours...
...decided that the only way to hold on was to go into debt for an irrigation system." Cross had no difficulty in getting a $100,000 loan from the local production credit association; his land was valued at up to $1,200 an acre, providing ample collateral. Ruth, a slim, handsome woman, went back to teaching...
Just look at the current standings--Brown (6-2) holds on to a slim one-game lead over both Harvard (5-3) and Princeton...
...Jimmy Breslin, who charges that had the teenagers been white and Goetz Black, rather than the other way around, the public would have taken a completely different view of the situation. But Goetz's predilections aside, the likelihood of two dozen randomly chosen Manhattan residents all being racists is slim at best--more likely, those 23 grand jurors are subway riders...
...divestiture plan is the most dramatic evidence so far that the golden days of corporate empire building are fading. Several other conglomerates are pursuing similar slim-down programs. Since 1983, Gulf & Western Industries has unloaded 46 companies, including its sugar and hotel businesses. In 1984, Avco got out of real estate and stopped making industrial lasers and farm equipment. R.J. Reynolds last year decided to focus once again on consumer products such as cigarettes and soft drinks and sold its shipping and energy businesses...