Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton doesn't even take off weekends, and he delayed making holiday plans as if he were putting off minor surgery. Some people wondered if a man who had not got away for four years on a regulation vacation would make it five, and if the dreaded word "working" would be appended to "vacation" even before one began...
...walking tempo that gathered speed and supported a whimsical clarinet solo inevitably finished in an abrupt minor cadence to start the fourth movement. (This is Bartok, after all.) Throughout the third and fourth movements, Mehta conducted from soloist to soloist in the winds and brass. He often adjusted the meter of his baton strokes to fit the parts that became a continuous string--a real concerto for an orchestra...
Rooney said that when Harvard police detectives Thomas Simas and Richard DeCruz apprehended one suspect, the arrest turned into a "violent struggle." Simas sustained minor injuries...
...Highway Patrol's Los Angeles auto-theft unit, who investigated the case: "These people don't care who you are. They don't care that you are a cop and may be armed. They have nothing to lose. The criminal-justice system is not a deterrent. It's a minor inconvenience...
During her tempestuous ride at the Post, she alienates several co-workers and, fatally, members of management. There is a frank recounting of a minor ethical lapse which contributes to her decision to leave the Post...