Word: minor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, Harvard has seen a steady decline in its admit rate over the past several years despite minor fluctuations in rank. The College also introduced major increases in financial aid last year, despite being ranked first by U.S. News...
Wathington predicts the write-in winners may be in for "at least a minor shock" when they attend their first meeting...
Only a handful of major-league pitchers can throw consistently in the upper 90s--and even fewer can maintain that velocity past age 30. Yet Morris--who never threw faster than 88 m.p.h. during a minor league stint that ended 12 years ago--had only grown stronger. Maybe it was because he'd had a painful bone spur removed from his shoulder. Maybe it was the years of weight training and pitching at batting practice. All the Devil Rays knew was that they were having a pathetic season and were desperate for left-handed pitching...
...savvy Gates, who hatches the daring scheme, reassures his young compatriots that they will not encounter conflict. Saddam's forces, he explains, are too busy thwarting the insurgent rebellion among the Iraqis to bother with the minor looting of a few Americans...
Roles up for grabs included parts in "Anything Goes," "HMS Pinafore," "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Faustus" and "The Importance of Being Earnest." Nobody broke a leg, but students said minor injuries were common in the auditions...