Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin of victory almost as slim as that which decided the U.S. election of 1960, in which John Kennedy squeezed out a plurality of 49.7% to beat Richard Nixon (49.5%) by just 118,550 votes...
...This slim volume is Spivack's first publishing effort, written while she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. She has studied with various well-known poets like John Malcolm Brinnin and Robert Lowell, but their influence is remarkably absent in this collection...
Fewer than 70,000 marriages have been dissolved since Parliament passed the measure by a slim margin in December 1970. Nevertheless, opponents of the law collected 1.3 million signatures on petitions, nearly three times the number needed to force a referendum...
...first five innings, however, it wasn't so rosy. Engineer starter Mike Royal was breezing along with a one hitter. Only four Harvard batters reached base, two on walks and two on throwing errors by Mike (four errors in the game) Dziekan. Royal had a slim lead, 1-0, to work with, as Vince Maconi's bunt rolled past third baseman Jim Thomas (who is back in the line-up for the first time since April 30) for an RBI single in the fourth...
Bickering Factions. The present caretaker government is a fragile coalition of Labor with the largely conservative National Religious Party, the Independent Liberal Party and Israeli Arab members of the Knesset. The alliance gave Mrs. Meir only a slim majority: 68 seats in a Parliament of 120 members. Bickering among the factions was one reason her government finally caved in. Rabin will have to use all of his generalship and his diplomatic persuasion to retain the ten Religious Party members. They differ with his moderate views on ceding some occupied territories as part of the peacemaking process; they also have...