Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MACGUFFIN by Stanley Elkin (Simon & Schuster; 283 pages; $19.95). Bobbo Druff, 58, is a washed-up pol serving time as city commissioner of streets in a minor-league U.S. metropolis. His wife of 36 years is going deaf; his son Mikey, 30, still lives at home; and his health -- after a heart bypass, four instances of a collapsed lung and extensive circulatory problems in his legs -- is not robust. Understandably he concludes that the "world is getting away from me, I think...
...Maloney said that the new plan, which measures fees in units of 100 cubic feet of water and effectively grants discounts to minor consumers, "shifts the onus to large user ships" like city universities and factory complexes...
...rugged individualist. I don't believe in handouts. I don't believe in favors. I don't believe in the politics of victimization," she says. "When you take something like [the accident] and come back from it, you don't have much sympathy for people with minor complaints...
...years, change-minded students and faculty members have argued that Harvard's tenure system stifles the very sort of innovative scholarship it claims to protect. But one and all acknowledge that there is little administrative support for even minor reform in the decades-old tenure system...
...minor chemical fire broke out yesterday morning in the Mallinckrodt Lab, near the Science Center, according to Harvard police Deputy Jack W. Morse...