Word: minor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the minor flooding on the Harvard campus does not approach the damage further south, the storm has not left the University unscathed...
...latest problem is just one more detour in the tedious search for Middle East peace, a process in which all sides have learned the delicate art of diminishing expectations, and how to put an epic spin on minor achievements. For instance, an agreement in the current talks will be heralded at a high-profile signing ceremony in Cairo, with Albright in attendance. Such pomp may seem a little over the top for an accord that amounts to no more than an undertaking to implement the agreement reached a year ago at Wye ? never mind that Wye itself, despite its dramatic...
Baseball season includes twice as many games as pro basketball and 10 times as many as pro football. And Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa can play on only one team each. To encourage repeat business, major and minor league teams have devised some creative promotions this season...
...parents, whom he visited regularly in the Nisqually Valley, far to the west, knew nothing about their son's affiliation with Aryan Nations, although they began to worry that he couldn't seem to keep a job or stay in one place. Police records show that aside from a minor traffic violation, he was never arrested for any crime, but he was drinking heavily, and acquaintances say he became increasingly unpredictable...
...hippo or elephant probably trampled it soon after the creature died. "It looks like roadkill," quips White. Given the small skulls of A. afarensis and other later australopithecines, however, this specimen undoubtedly had a pint-size brain. At this point in evolution, says White, "we're in the minor leagues of brain development...