Word: slimmest
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...decided to reject the entire raft of gun control measures the chamber had managed to slog through, sometimes in partisan hand-to-hand parliamentary combat, during the week?s blazing shootout over firearms. Democrats voted against the final bill because of a key NRA-backed provision -- approved by the slimmest of majorities -- which would have weakened existing restrictions on gun-show sales. They were joined by a group of conservative Republicans who objected to almost all the measure?s provisions. Though some resuscitation of gun control might still be possible in conference negotiations with the Senate, which last month passed...
Murphy jumped out to a 2-1 lead in the match with the slimmest of victories in the third game, 10-8. With that game tied 8-8, Murphy rattled off two straight points to bring her team to the brink of the title...
...betrayed by him on welfare reform and Medicare cuts. To act as his emissary to the Senate, Clinton would like to bring on board George Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, whose job will be largely to explore what many on the President's team believe is just the slimmest chance of a deal that would fend off a full trial. The President's lawyers, David Kendall, Charles Ruff and Greg Craig, are already in all-out pretrial mode, aggressively mastering the details of the evidence and planning strategy for questioning witnesses...
After Washington, Wilson began the majority ofher presentations by first warning that shewould--and could--share only the slimmest ofdetails about the negotiations with Harvardregarding a possible merger...
First, in February at the ITA National IndoorTeam Championships, the Crimson--then ranked17th--upset the ninth ranked Florida Gators beforeeventually falling to then-No. 5 Mississippi Stateby the slimmest of margins, 4-3, in the nextround...