Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enjoy his platoon role; and when the club suspended him, Sanders called that "the worst betrayal by a team in all sports history." Though there's nothing major on his rap sheet, Sanders' penchant for trouble is well documented. Perhaps his greatest crime, though, was icing, which is a minor infraction in hockey but a major felony when it involves Tim McCarver. During the celebration that followed the Braves' win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 7 of the 1992 National League championship series, Sanders dumped a bucket of ice water on McCarver, a cbs announcer who had criticized...
Discontent with both the cost and the sometimes impersonal delivery of health care has fueled growth in alternative medicine, now a $14 billion-a- year industry. ``I can heal myself twice as fast,'' boasts Bill Ambrose, 44, a Denver energy-management technician who has been treating a minor leg injury with a homeopathic herb. Home-improvement retailers are profiting from consumers who find plumbers, contractors and electricians to be unaffordable, untrustworthy or both. Home Depot, the largest home-improvement retailer, posted record earnings of $141 million for the third quarter of 1994, a 36% increase over the same period...
...Angeles there is only one rather minor incentive to retrofit: low-cost city loans to repair unreinforced masonry. San Francisco, says Iwan, more than five years after the Loma Prieta quake, is ``having a great deal of difficulty implementing anywhere near the kinds of retrofit regulations and laws that Southern California has,'' even though ``there are some very hazardous buildings there,'' many concentrated around Chinatown. In an era of government cutbacks, neither the state nor Washington seems likely to foot the bill. Insurance companies are not much help either. After picking up about half of the $20 billion losses from...
...begin with, both thought the literary world a circus. The pages glitter with mad poets, deceitful lovers, long-suffering wives and natural-born snobs. The widow of George Orwell is quoted as having said, "Auschwitz, oh, dear no! That person was never in Auschwitz. Only in some very minor death camp...
...this way, donors can actually play a minor role in policy making...