Word: minor
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...been constantly, if incrementally changing during the past 25 years-from one with a core of strictly-defined General Education surrounded by watertight departments to a pattern where General Education means departmental courses with a wider perspective and where interdisciplinary majors are not uncommon. The periodic discussions over minor reforms-loosening Independent Study requirements for example-have led some Faculty members to begin their own private reassessment of what a college education should...
...article "Clergy and Abortions" [Nov. 28] contains several minor statistical errors and one misleading statement that should be corrected. You say that when the clergymen's counseling service "was being organized, a committee met quietly with state officials and agreed to the ground rules." The meeting took place, but ground rules were merely discussed. State officials did not agree to them...
...With minor variations, the same negotiating patterns prevail throughout Scandinavia. The harmony derives from a distinctively Scandinavian sense of selfdiscipline. Items...
...touch the cake. Grudgingly, he accepts a piece, bites skeptically into it, whereupon his face unclouds with delight as he discovers that the cake is made of meat. Moments like that are rare in a season, let alone a play, and they make Who's Happy Now? a minor treasure...
...Modest in scope, but significant in impact," said Richard Nixon of the foreign-trade proposals that he sent to Congress last week-and so they were. While his message reaffirmed the nation's 35-year-old commitment to freer trade, the President sought only minor new authority to cut tariffs. In effect, he promised that any Nixon Round of trade negotiations would consist only of hard-headed international horse trading...