Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passed since New York City's most infamous subway assailant, Bernard Goetz, opened fire on four black teenagers who asked him for money. In 1987, three years after the shooting, a jury acquitted Goetz of the most serious criminal charges levelled against him. He was found guilty of only minor weapons charges, and many city residents viewed him as a heroic vigilante who had stood up to "predators," as the four youths were described by Goetz's lawyer, Barry Slotnick...
...bomb. "Ted was a hard worker," says his closest neighbor, Leland Mason, 57, "but he was not a smart worker. Short on common sense. He was not mechanically inclined. He had one old pickup truck one summer and drove it until it quit on him. It was just a minor thing that was wrong with the truck, but he didn't know how to fix it. He just let it sit up there, until somebody bought it from him. It only cost the new owner $25 for the part. Ted had a hard time with everyday mechanical things." He tried...
...tell the truth, I don't even like computers very much. They pose technical problems that are deep and engrossing, but when there is playing to be done, I'd much rather play with my young boys or my wife. I will make time to untangle the minor problems the boys' computer is prone to only when I am up against a wall and Prince of Persia has ground to a dead halt. I don't want any kidnapped princesses on my conscience...
...what used to be called concerned photography--the migrant workers of Dorothea Lange, for example, or the G.I.s of Robert Capa--lost some of their claim on the imagination. The icons of the 1950s would be personal and a bit inscrutable, like the quasi-mystical nature studies of Minor White and the abstract close-ups of torn posters by Aaron Siskind...
...most recent unannounced inspection was of the waste processes and air quality of boiler plants at the Radcliffe campus. The inspection resulted in relatively minor recommendations which centered around improved record-keeping...