Word: minor
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...When they first appeared last September, the images-one of which shows Muhammad's turban transformed into a bomb-caused only a minor kerfuffle. Finding any artistic representation of the Prophet inappropriate, and that some of these images conveyed disrespect against him and against Islam as a religion, Arab ambassadors in Copenhagen quickly demanded meetings last autumn with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He demurred, making the bulletproof argument that government doesn't control the free press. But it has broken out with new and somewhat mysterious force since a Norwegian periodical reprinted the cartoons on January 10. Arab...
...innovate and improve the courses themselves.Given the acknowledged flaws of the Core, it would be hypocritical and unfair to current students not to implement the new system as soon as possible, unless there were some great cost involved in doing so. Any concerns about instant implementation, however, are minor and far outweighed by the benefits of the new distribution requirements.The first concern is that the transition might not yet be able to reconcile the Core with the new distributive system. Yet with the exception of moral reasoning, the 11 current Core areas map fairly cleanly onto the three distribution categories...
...fundamental goal of Medicare Part D is hard to argue with. Medicare has no drug benefit; Part D provides one. When Medicare was established in 1965 as a Great Society health-care program for seniors, prescription drugs were a minor planet in the universe of medical treatment. They now account for 11% of every health-care dollar spent. But more than a quarter of the 42 million people on Medicare had no drug coverage at all last year...
...don’t want to judge, and I try not to let it get to me,” she says. “There have been some minor negatives, but on the whole, the reaction has been really positive...
...pretty close to finishing all the major details and am wrapping up the minor details,” Straight says about planning her August wedding. “I still need to pick flowers and finalize invitations, but I’ve had the church and the reception hall since October...