Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...radio barked again while St. Andrew and Tayenaka were still in the parking lot, and they took off at top speed. Arriving with the siren blaring, they found a man who had cut his hand in a minor traffic accident and wanted hospital care. A county-contracted private ambulance took the case. "He'll get a bill," said Tayenaka, "but nobody pays." Later a drunken partygoer fell and cut his head slightly; he wanted an ambulance...
...Japanese baseball manager was hired by the minor-league Salinas Spurs to import that winning spirit to a lousy team. Result: at week's end the team was 5-27. Says Koga: "Our bats are a little slow...
...prize in the math Olympics and graduating first in his class. But during his junior year at a new school he refused to attend the standard "Lenin class" that led to automatic Komsomol ((Communist Party youth organization)) membership. I urged him not to jeopardize his future for a minor formality. Alexei answered, "Andrei Dmitrievich, you allow yourself to be honest. Why do you advise me to behave differently...
...realize that most people don't really listen and that it's a minor part [of the the ceremony], but I think it's a great opportunity," said Bramson, although he added he was "sure I'll be nervous" about speaking to 20,000 people completely from memory...
...Angel/EMI). This is the three-disc set to which posterity will turn to rediscover Horowitz's genius. In much of his later recording, musical lines are twisted into pretzels and strewn with the salt of neurotic fussiness. Here, both in large-scale major works (Liszt's Sonata in B minor) and smaller pieces (Chopin's mazurkas), the phenomenal technique and unmistakable sonority serve the music, rather than the other way around...