Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government is paying $210,000 to find out whether burping cows contribute to global warming. Researchers will strap monitors near the cud-chewing creatures' mouths to measure how much methane they emit. Flatulence is considered a comparatively minor source...
...proxy battles go, the fight for Hollywood Park racetrack ranks as a minor contest. But the cast of characters could have been plucked from the plot of a Dick Francis novel and plunked down in an episode of Dynasty. In fact, actor John Forsythe, the patriarch of the defunct TV show, is a star defender of Majorie Everett, the eccentric chairwoman of the company that manages the track in Inglewood, Calif...
...proposed changes will affect at most 4,000 of the 50,000 words in use, but such minor "rectifications" cut no ice with editors and academics who have launched a vigorous contre-attaque (new spelling: contrattaque). At the center of their protest is the circumflex accent, a little hat the French occasionally put over vowels (as in chateau and hotel, crouton and maitre). To simplify matters, the new rules would remove it from...
NOTEBOOK: With Mitchell playing only 18minutes and center Mike Minor missing his thirdstraight game with a knee injury, Harvard wasoutrebounded, 43-29. O'Sullivan (11 rebounds) andLombard (10) led the Big Green inside. "We wantedto force their big guys to beat us and they did abetter job this time, just not enough to beat us,"Roby said...For the second time this season,Harvard's Peter Condakes was fouled after hittinga three-point shot. The trey pulled the Crimsonwithin one, 53-52, with 12 minutes to play.Condakes, who made his first start of the season,finished with 12 points...
HARVARD (61): Ron Mitchell 5-12 7-10 17; Tyler Rullman 5-12 2-2 12; Mike Minor 3-6 0-0 6; Matt McClain 2-13 0-0 4; Tarik Campbell 1-12 0-1 2; Peter Condakes 1-7 1-2 3; Jabbar Abdi 6-8 1-2 13; Anikar Chhabra...