Word: minor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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County fairs featuring tractor pulls, livestock shows and country western music. An agriculture report on the afternoon news. Packed town hall meetings to discuss the local high school cheerleading squad. Minor league baseball, frequent pledges of allegiance and lots of singing of the national anthem. Soccer tournaments, Girl Scout cookies, barbecues and Bible study classes...
Welcome to Peoria, this mecca of mediocrity. Many Peorians are happily married, raising children in thriving communities, taking them to county fairs, packed village hall meetings, minor league baseball games, soccer tournaments and Bible study classes...
...systems. In all cases, antibiotics are not only useless but may actually make things worse, causing the bacteria to rupture and spill their toxin even more widely throughout the gut. Says Nancy Donley, a safe-food activist whose son died of E. coli infection: "We're not talking about minor gastrointestinal distress. It is a brutally ugly death...
Capitol's country artists too seem to have got only a minor boost from pay-for-say. Brooks' album Sevens is a hit--as it would undoubtedly have been without pay-for-say. But Bogguss's Nobody Love, Nobody Gets Hurt, after debuting on the Billboard album chart at No. 42, has since slipped to No. 61, while Wariner's Burnin' the Roadhouse Down opened at No. 6 and fell to No. 21 last week. Pay-for-play is no magic wand. It can make a good record sell better but doesn't do much for an average...
Here's one more reason why you shouldn't believe everything you read: despite modest sales predictions, Windows 98 is flying off store shelves. Research firm IDC had predicted that the new edition, widely considered a minor maintenance upgrade to the ubiquitous Windows 95 operating system, would sell a third fewer copies than its predecessor in its first year. But in its first six days on sale (starting June 25), Windows 98 had sold more copies than Windows 95 in the same period. So much for the experts...