Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dacca was always a fairly dreary city, offering slim pleasures beyond the Hotel Intercontinental and a dozen Chinese restaurants ^ that few of its 1,500,000 people could afford. Now, IP in many ways, it has become a city of the dead. A month after the army struck, unleashing tank guns and automatic weapons against largely unarmed civilians in 34 hours of wanton slaughter, Dacca is still shocked and shuttered, its remaining inhabitants living in terror under the grip of army control. The exact toll will never be known, but probably more than 10,000 were killed in Dacca alone...
...Americans higher, faster and farther than ever before. After the U.S. Senate voted last week to shoot down the supersonic transport, which would have been the costliest commercial product in the nation's history, there were widespread new fears about the future of this proud industry. Barring the increasingly slim chance that the SST contractors will be able to continue work with private financing, the Senate vote killed?or at least postponed indefinitely?a machine that the U.S. had long assumed would be the basis of the next generation of commercial aircraft...
...slim crowd of 500, in Auburn's 15,000 seat Memorial Coliseum, witnessed over 200 opening round bouts yesterday. In the 142 pound class, Pat Coleman was eliminated, 4-3, by Chester Cook of the California State Teachers College of Pennsylvania...
Although Bamberg said that the Physics Department has put "no direct publish-or-perish pressure on me," and has been "very accommodating" about his teaching interest, he said he thinks his chances of receiving tenure are slim...
Since then, the Naxalites have moved into urban areas, establishing a large following among university students disenchanted with slim opportunities for employment. A guerrilla-type action group, they first moved to shut down schools and frequently attacked police. They denounced the current election as "treachery," put up no nominees of their own, and vowed to halt the balloting by knocking off candidates of other parties. So far, three have been killed, and the voting in their constituencies has been postponed...