Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most famous minor league player of all time did baseball a great service last week: he hung up his spikes. After a thoroughly unproductive rookie season at the age of 31, Michael Jordan mercifully ended his 18-month farce and returned the national pastime to legitimate ballplayers...
...signed by the Chicago White Sox (whose owner, not coincidentally, also happens to own the Chicago Bulls) to a minor league contract and sent to the Double A Birmingham Barons to work on his basic skills...
...seventh worker was treated for minor injuries at Burbank Hospital in Fitchburg, and released...
...wardrobe merely hints at a larger linkage that Manchevski, a young Macedonian filmmaker who somehow ended up at Southern Illinois University and moved on to music videos, wants to make. It is put simply by a doctor who is a minor character in his film: "War is a virus," meaning that, in an era of ethnic and religious conflict, the disease can be carried everywhere by impassioned terrorists and can infect anyone-in this case the young priest, the isolated Anne (who works as a photo editor, coolly studying images of violence) or even the seemingly well-inoculated Aleksander...
...that Congress could raise benefits every few years, to the glee of pensioners and the ballot-box profit of their representatives. Even when the money began to run out in 1983, a bipartisan commission saved the day--for the next 75 years, it was then thought--by recommending rather minor cutbacks in benefits and very major increases in taxes, the last of which took effect only...