Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Captain, but love and good sense tie him to his family. In a jumbled kind of way, he manages to honor both obligations, and everyone heads toward the Mexican border and the winding down of McMurtry's beguiling legend. The author's minor characters are sketched with a fine, loose skill; there's an old Indian tracker named Famous Shoes, and a white man who has spent his life roaming the Southwest with a pack of dogs, killing off the region's bears...
...course, Selig has a lot of bad ideas. He was a strong supporter of the addition of two new team to the league this year, the Colorado Rockies and the Florida Marlins. These teams bought revenue to the owners, and minor league caliber baseball to Denver and Miami...
...course, both states already had actual minor league teams. Now they have more expensive ones...
...enough, in a recent test, for 100 Americans on a light diet to lose an average of 11 lbs. in three months -- nearly twice as much as control subjects, who were on the same moderate eating regime but were given a placebo. The group taking the orlistat did experience minor but unpleasant side effects, including greasier stools and some diarrhea. It is not known how many of those people gained back the weight they had lost as soon as the trial was over. An ambitious two-year study, involving 4,000 subjects from Europe and the U.S., is under...
...controversy over how welcoming the Law School was to women, however, is a minor issue, Griswold said, and should not detract from the broader issue of the nominee's qualifications...