Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson were forced to play the Brown match without captain Burroughs at first singles. Burroughs suffered a minor injury against Yale, and after playing in the doubles match against Brown sat out the singles match...
Perhaps realizing the obligation it has to the city and its people, NATO has engaged in several minor airstrikes in an attempt to deter the Serbs form taking the city. These apparently have failed. Rather than being cowed, the Serbs have stepped up the offensive...
...work a year after Hosokawa received the loan. Also, the paperwork Hosokawa released to prove he had repaid the loan appeared incomplete. One ledger included the date "Sept. 31," suggesting that it was a hurriedly conjured reconstruction. The inept handling of what at first appeared to be a minor, perhaps nonexistent transgression inspired some commentators to compare Hosokawa's problems to Bill Clinton's Whitewater saga. At his departure press conference, Hosokawa expressed the "sincere hope that this act of mine will result in restoring public trust in the political process...
Shorter Reading Periods. The council's proposal shortens Fall Reading Period by three days. A minor point, but would we still have time to go sledding on the steps of Widener...
Sports life is so much more complicated -- and dramatic -- than life in sports movies. As Allen Barra, a sportswriter for the Village Voice, says, , "We know that sometimes the skier breaks her neck. Sometimes the hero is crushed. And sometimes you achieve some minor victory that only means something to yourself. That is something a lot of people who know they will never be stars or professionals can relate to -- the victory you yourself have won, the satisfaction you can get out of it." There is surely such satisfaction felt by the Jamaican bobsledders at the end of Cool Runnings...