Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have caught on like a virus, propelled by "can't miss" contagiousness. Over the past 19 months investors have bid up such issues, spectacularly and speculatively, by spending a record $60 billion on the stock of start-up companies. That many of these outfits lacked the fundamental attributes--oh, minor things, such as profits--that sane folks use as the basis for plunking down their money didn't matter. Any company linked to computers or the World Wide Web may as well have been linked to a mint...
Such surveillance rarely uncovers serious abuse or dereliction, says Richard Heilweil of Babywatch. Yet about 70% of parents who hire Babywatch wind up dismissing the care giver for some minor transgression, such as talking on the phone or watching TV. "It is troubling to see so many people treating their domestic employees in a way they would never tolerate being treated themselves," says Lewis Maltby, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who is working with outraged nanny groups to find "the right case" to challenge the surveillance. He will argue that federal laws prohibiting undisclosed audiotaping should apply...
...concerned with breaking this cycle, however unsteadily, and it is for this uncertain passion that the character of Jamie remains the most difficult, compelling and catalytic of the play. Bill Camp, assuredly the ART's most urgent talent, brings fine skill to his portrayal of Jamie, ferreting out each minor and irresistible motivation, each thread of resentment and desperate love for his family which subtly bombard the young man. The dynamism of Camp's performance is apparent in the variety of moods and postures his Jamie takes as he emotionally gropes for a solution to save his mother and brother...
...fixed at the rate of labor-force growth [currently around 1.2% a year] and the average annual increase in productivity [which was 1.1% through 1995]." That adds up to total growth of 2.3%, and "anything more than that will only feed inflation." Most true believers would include only minor qualifications, such as putting the upper speed limit...
YELLOWSTONE, WYOMING With 27 seasonal positions cut, the park will close its Norris campground and two museums for the season. Reduced patrols may also lessen the staff's ability to respond to minor emergencies...