1.   And that slender margin simply begged for an appearance by Billy Wagner, back to his best button man form of old, in the ninth.

2.   And they more than cover the slender margins the GOP enjoys in each chamber.

3.   But he may do so by default, and with a far more slender margin than he has previously enjoyed.

4.   By a slender margin, neutral Switzerland decided in a countrywide vote on Sunday to leave behind decades of isolationism and become a member of the United Nations.

5.   Hewlett, who led a costly and acrimonious proxy fight against the Compaq merger, is challenging the shareholder vote, which Hewlett-Packard apparently won by a slender margin.

6.   Only later would the two men realize the slender margin of their escape.

7.   Rep. Sam Gibbons, another Democrat and the acting chairman of the Ways and Means Committee this year, defended his seat by a slender margin.

8.   Slender margins put a premium on volume.

9.   That would make FAST the most comprehensive search service on the Internet, albeit by a very slender margin.

10.   The polls put him ahead, but only by a slender margin, with a sizable undecided vote.