Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall, boyish, slim-featured and soft-spoken Fallows opens his explanation evoking the moral challenge that the Vietnam War presented students in the late '60s. Today, he says, "there is no single overriding concern which makes you dismiss all marginal concerns and trimming." But in the late '60s the war was such an overriding force. It was an "epochal test, and you didn't know how it was all going to finally turn out and whether for the next 39 or 40 years people would point back and say, 'Those people did not speak up when the test of time...
...EAST. Jimmy Carter has widened his lead in New York and is ahead in Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maine are leaning to Carter, but his margin in those states is slim, and they could turn at the drop of a gaffe. President Ford runs ahead in Vermont and New Hampshire. Connecticut is leaning toward Ford...
...bullpens are led by Manny Sarmiento (2.06 ERA), Rawley Eastwick (2.08) and Pedro Borbon (3.31) for Cincinnati, and Ron Reed (2.46), Tug McGraw (2.51) and Gene Garber (2.81) for Philadelphia. Although McGraw has postseason experience, Eastwick stands out in this bumper crop of firemen to give the Reds a slim edge in the relief department...
...poor choice of structures greatly enhances the chance that the organisms could escape, possibly infecting those who work in the lab and nearby residents. Scientists have assured the Harvard community that such mistakes probably won't happen and, even if they do, that the possibilities of disease are slim. But no one has been able to give a 100 per cent guarantee that these biohazards won't occur...
...priests and bishops. The proposition had been rejected in 1970 and 1973, but the Minneapolis convention finally voted in favor of the full ordination of women,* breaking with a practice dating to the earliest days of the church. In the House of Bishops, 60% voted yes, a slim margin to carry conviction and impel churchwide support for such an emotional issue. In the House of Deputies (made up of priests and laity who vote separately on important decisions), it was an eyelash victory because of the house's peculiar voting system. If the priestly delegations from just three...