81.   The strikes have especially hurt street vendors and rickshaw drivers whose slim margins can ill-afford the loss of revenue.

82.   In California two house seats remain unsettled, with Democrats trailing Republicans in both races by slim margins.

83.   In France, despite almost total support among the political elite, the treaty was endorsed at the voting booths by a very slim margin.

84.   In the Russian Far East region of Magadan, leftist Valentine Tsvetkov has apparently defeated incumbent governor Viktor Mikhailov by a slim margin, Interfax reported.

85.   A special EGM was similarly held last June, where Ling won by a slim margin his fight to go ahead with the newspaper deal.

86.   Chaine said that despite slim margins and restricted activities, Credit Lyonnais was making reasonable profits in China.

87.   Last year, the administration was able to get the North American Free Trade Agreement through Congress with a slim margin.

88.   Peres asked for a vote authorizing him to order appropriate action, but this was approved by only a slim margin, Israeli media reported.

89.   Sony is elbowing its way into an increasingly crowded field of newcomers in the personal computer market that has a slim margin of profit.

90.   The beleaguered Spanish government narrowly avoided an embarrassing defeat in parliament Tuesday as a non-binding resolution calling for immediate elections lost by only a slim margin.