Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strike flared from a minor dispute that swiftly escalated amid long- standing tensions between the News and its unions, which represent most of the paper's 2,700 employees. After a supervisor ordered a worker with a medical disability to stand up on the job last month, a group of union drivers walked out of the plant, providing an opportunity for management to replace them. The News, which last year began training nonunion replacement workers at sites in Florida and New Jersey, rushed a busload of substitute drivers to the scene. The next day the paper declared that 60 replaced...
...those very sounds, of course, that made stars of Simon and his best friend from Forest Hills, Queens, Art Garfunkel. Under the "nom de 45" Tom & Jerry, the boys had a minor hit single in 1957, then followed the folk-music trail into the new decade. Oft-told rock legend 192: how a house producer at Columbia Records without Paul's knowledge added electric guitar, drums and bass to an earnest, intimate, acoustic ballad of Simon's; and how The Sounds of Silence, with its new rock underpinnings, became a No. 1 single in 1966. It was a fluke...
...workers in the plant were sent to the emergency room at Mt. Auburn Hospital for minor respiratory problems resulting from the leak, officials at the scene said. But a team of 43 Cambridge firefighters managed to contain the leak shortly after noon...
...proposed law would set the minimum number of signatures needed on independent or minor party nomination papers for state office at one-half of 1 percent (4 percent) of the entire vote cast in the previous state election for governor (as compared to 2 percent as of 1989), and would also establish this number of signatures as the upper limit needed for major party candidates. The proposed law would also permit voters to sign the nomination papers of any number of candidates for the same office, would require that all blank forms to be used for nomination papers and initiative...
...malleable Yalie and gave him orders for life: move to Texas, infiltrate the Republican Party and start a long, quiet climb to power. His mission: destroy the G.O.P. from within. Mastering the finer points of mesquite barbecue and duck-blind repartee, the spy rose through the ranks, performing minor tasks for party leaders along the way. Years later, just as planned, the deep-cover agent finally became President...