Word: minor
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Council members and other undergraduates on the Reform Committee poured many hours into debating and crafting 16 bills that would have altered the council. When the Committee's proposals were presented last spring, the council managed to pass only minor procedural-change measures. Major changes suggested by the Committee were either shelved or defeated because of a dearth of votes; fewer than 50 of the council's 88 members attended last year's closing meetings...
...minutes after Suurkask's score, sophomore defenseman Christie MacKinnon was hit with a two-minute minor penalty for cross-checking. Leading 3-2, the Crimson found itself in a shorthanded situation and fought furiously to kill the penalty...
...filleting of the Florida Marlins began yesterday as the world champions traded a $5 million a year contract in the person of outfielder Moises Alou to the Houston Astros for two minor league pitchers who will work for considerably less. Owner Wayne Huizenga and Don Smiley, who heads a group trying to buy the team, have pledged to slice the Marlins payroll to a lean $20 million. Enjoy that trophy, Marlins fans ? its the last bit of hardware you'll see in South Florida for a while...
Since Catch-22 is about an armed force that wanted a few good men and no women at all, it is not surprising that only three women, each assigned fairly minor characters, round out the otherwise allmale ensemble. As Nately's whore, Chloe Cockburn exhudes plenty of passionate rage with an Italian accent, but little else. Kathleen Conroy plays Nurse Duckett with plenty of attitude; unfortunately, her quiet voice prevents most of the audience from enjoying her quips. Dana Scardigli, with another Italian accent, is decent as the contrary Luciana, and hilarious as a weeping soldier's mother...
...Organists are just normal people," Forger says after a rendition of Charles Marie Widor's Symphony No. 6 in G Minor, a piece that explodes from the thousands of delicate pipes in a sweet medley of singular sound...