Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...added that she will delay her departure as long as possible so she can help her successor adjust to the job. But office insiders have said in recent interviews that news of Patrick's imminent departure has already hurt office morale and touched off a minor exodus from the sixth-floor of Holyoke Center...
...faulty planning, fouled-up communications and, worst of all, a fatal misjudgment by commanders of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who decided not to call off the attack even after they learned that they had lost the element of surprise. Last week Reno said, "One of the minor tragedies of Waco is we will never know what the right choices were." She added, "The ghost of Waco will be with me all of my life...
...does have one drawback--the music is overwhelmingly happy, and even the album's sad songs don't manage to convey much heartbreak. Every one of Broken Moon's songs is about relationships, but the "break-up" songs somehow seem more wistful than hurt. Granted, this is a relatively minor complaint--if the sentiment is unchanging, at least, unlike many "slow songs," every other word is not "love" or "baby...
...Neither a borrower nor a Spender be" is the message American novelist David Leavitt got from his publisher, Viking, last week. No more copies of Leavitt's controversial novel, While England Sleeps, will be printed or shipped until the author has made "minor revisions," said a Viking spokesperson. The move was in response to a lawsuit by the eminent British poet Stephen Spender, who claims that Leavitt has drawn too closely on his 1951 memoir, World Within World...
Though it deals with a course taken by several hundreds of students, the author relies on the testimony of one major informant and two minor ones, and doesn't appear to have attended even one lecture herself to see whether they speak the truth...