Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slipped badly. During the spring primaries, samplings by Yankelovich determined that McGovern projected himself as a "strong liberal." It was precisely his firm and often courageous stands on controversial issues that set him apart from and above the host of other Democratic challengers. Now McGovern is casting a slim and pale shadow. Yankelovich interprets McGovern's new image as that of a "weak radical." Almost one in three voters now believes McGovern to be radical, in spite of the fact that he has softened many of his positions. At the same time and partly for the same reason, three...
...premedical advisor, I might tell a senior applying to a certain medical school that I fear he will be rejected or that he has a very slim (or virtually no) chance of being admitted; I could not tell that same student not to apply. Similarly. I can explain to a student that he has a poor chance of doing well, but I cannot tell him not to enroll in a course that is required for concentration in both Biology and Biochemistry and then is required for application to medical schools. Some students were frightened away from the first session...
...second-place Tigers, 3-2, in 12 innings. Roy White's solo circuit in the top of the twelfth was the decisive blow, as the New Yorkers overcame some stout pitching by Mickey Lolich to push the Tigers one step closer to elimination, while keeping their own slim pennant hopes alive. Ex-Soxer Sparky Lyle...
...Chinese have never fallen into the pitfalls of a monotheistic religion. If there were only one god, then one's chances of getting into paradise would be very slim. So we have deities who cover every eventuality whom we placate annually, all of them endowed with one or more of our human faults; therefore, we are well covered because surely one of the gods will have pity on us and let us into heaven...
...endorsed candidates won a slim majority on the City Council and chose one of their number, Ackermann, as mayor, who by law also chairs of the School Committee. The anti-Frisoli forces thus gained control of the Committee...