Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half of the concert. An essential part of the Kronos experience is the mood lighting, and the mottled shadows that materialized on stage here vaguely suggested ivy or stained glass. Either suited perfectly the medieval character of "Summa," a piece that never departs from the G natural minor scale in something like 10 minutes of homophonic wanderings. This is music as meditation, appreciable by anyone who can, like Part, find it to be "enough when a single note is beautifully played...
...source code is available, computer users can either fix bugs themselves, or hire other programmers. Corrections could then be incorporated into the program's next release. EMACS has already had eighteen major releases; Stallman has played an increasingly minor role in each. Software users often become software writers as they adapt free programs to their needs...
...HASTENED TO SAY, ANOTHER Chernobyl. But radiation leaks from an exploding uranium tank at the Tomsk-7 chemical plant in western Siberia did constitute the most serious nuclear accident since the 1986 Ukrainian reactor fire that spewed deadly radiation over Russia, Belarus and much of Western Europe, killing hundreds. Minor pollution and no casualties were reported at Tomsk-7, which lies 1,800 miles east of Moscow and produced, until recently, lethal plutonium for nuclear weapons. Environmental groups, which claim that the Tomsk incident was more serious than reported and blame it on slack safety standards, are calling for Russia...
...addition, both Denver and Miami had minor league baseball teams. Now they'll get the same quality of play, though they'll pay more than $100 million for the privilege of starting these new teams Last year's minor league Denver Zephyrs vs. the Rockies in a best of seven series I'll take the Zephyrs in six, if only because they'd be more familiar with the new team's home park, Mile High Stadium, a structure perfectly designed for one sport football...
...rich greedmongers who own professional baseball teams make a huge profit on these glorified, minor league franchises, even as they destroy the major leagues. It's easier for baseball to expand--and feel good about itself--than to look inward and face its real problems...