Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest and most terrible of wars ended this week in the echoes of an enormous event -- an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance." With those words fifty years ago, TIME Magazine reported theexplosion of a nuclear bomb in Hiroshima. On Sunday,Japan will solemnly commemorate the devastation. Hiroshima, then just a medium-sized city in southern Japan, wasdestroyed in seconds in one blinding flash. More than 100,000 people, nearly half of Hiroshima's population, perished immediately. Tens of thousands more died later of injuries sustained in the searing blast...
Pagels thinks her concerns are central. "Associating heretics, pagans and Jews with the powers of evil has been a massive theme in Western history. If this is minor, I wonder what moral struggle is all about." Her own struggle is to persuade us that Satan is often just a container that we fashion to hold our own poisons. We have met the Old Enemy...
...uncertain whether the blast came from a bomb, "but the presumptions are very strong." Some witnesses reported the strong smell of gunpowder after the explosion. Several victims, faces covered with blood, were carried off in stretchers; a nearby restaurant was turned into a rescue base to treat minor injuries. "I saw six or seven people who were wounded; bleeding from their faces and legs. It was scary," one witness told the Associated Press. "Tonight I take the bus." Paris was last hit by a wave of bombings in 1986, when terrorists -- apparently an Iranian-backed Lebanese group -- killed 13 people...
Both these groups are predominantly Republican, as is a third organization run by Charles Kelly, a retired Washington banker and former minor official in the Eisenhower Administration. His main effort is to talk to business friends about giving money to a Powell campaign, to preach the Powell gospel to influential Republicans and to organize a shadow national committee. None of this is big league enough to represent a real political force, but that's not surprising given that they have no real candidate to support...
...While minor differences will undoubtedly be ironed out, more serious questions remain about whether both nations can sustain political and economic support for such an ambitious project. NASA originally estimated that working with the Russians would shave $4 billion off the space station's cost. Later the estimate was revised to $2 billion, then $1.5 billion. A recent report by the General Accounting Office put the savings at a mere $600 million...