Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Austria's Socialists, who had ruled as a minority government since coming to power 18 months ago, garnered 50.04% of the total vote; with 93 of the 183 seats in the lower house, they now enjoy a slim majority in both chambers of Parliament. The People's Party received 43.11% and 80 seats. The misnamed Liberal Party (in which the ghosts of German nationalism walk) stayed at 5.45% and ten seats. The swing to the left stopped short of the Communist Party, which took only 1.36% of the vote and once again fell short-as it has since...
...Slim Vote...
...slim vote of 2-1 with two abstentions, the board ruled, in effect, that rock would not be given an afternoon program from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. as had been proposed. But despite this decision, there was a rock show yesterday afternoon beginning at 2:31 p.m., obeying the letter of the board's action but not its spirit...
After watching the Giants' once commanding lead cut to one slim game, Manager Charlie Fox seemed all but spooked. "How in God's name could they be so lucky?" he exclaimed. "They win with broken-bat hits, handle hits, bunts just barely out of reach, hits off the end of the bat, balls that hit the rim of the Astroturf carpet and hop funny. But luck has got to come back to us now. It's impossible for things to continue going the way they have for them." Not necessarily. The Dodgers of late have been making...
...selected at random at New York Hospital's therapeutic-abortion ward. Downs found that at least one-quarter of the first 108 women studied had suffered psychiatric problems in the previous two years; more than half had lost a parent or close relative during the past year. A slim majority said that members of their families had recently undergone hysterectomies, or that they themselves had experienced gynecological disorders that led them to question their fertility. "It really makes sense for these women to become pregnant," says Downs. "It is a response to the threat of loss, a proof...