Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to a spokesperson for the Boston-based Phoenix Bay Construction Company, which is overseeing brickwork repairs, Harvard has engaged in only minor renovations in the past, including simple "paint-up" jobs...
...Escape. "It's a killer," says Allen Burke of Dayton Hudson stores. "A runaway hit." But the three giants are most concerned with long-term sales and permanent market niches. That takes a big budget and intelligent strategy, which is more than what's behind many minor scents, including most celebrity and designer fragrances...
While the vast majority of chiropractic patients are treated for back, neck and shoulder complaints as well as minor headaches, some 10% seek help for organic diseases of all sorts. Can manipulation help them? The chiropractic literature is replete with examples of astonishing cures of ulcers, hypertension, childhood asthma, blindness and even paraplegia. But individual case histories prove nothing, and organized studies are few and far between. Spinal manipulation has been shown to alter the heartbeat and the acidity of the stomach, says Peter Curtis, a medical professor at the University of North Carolina, who studied the technique, "but whether...
...that were supposed to have been supporting research for things such as the Harvard shuttle bus, there were no abuses like those at Stanford, where federal monies were used for fruitwood commodes and presidential yachts. Still, the scandal must have been big enough to have caused at least a minor shakeup at the Medical School, as evidenced by this recent ad in the Harvard Gazette's "Harvard Opportunities" section...
Nixon was acquired by the Braves in spring training for a minor league player in an attempt to improve Atlanta's speed. He responded by setting a team record for stolen bases...