Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tradition of offering support to students in the form of grants tied to work requirements, known as work-study, has endured with minor adjustments in the last 50 years...
...late spring, "some software we had from a bank to clear credit cards could not deal with cards which expired in January 2000," he said, and this summer, some people with identification cards expiring in the year 2000 were unable to enter William James Hall. However, Bradner said, these minor problems were quickly solved, and that "fundamentally, at this point, we see very few problems...
Bradner said the bug could plague anything from spreadsheets to "something some graduate student did 10 years ago" but predicted it to be a minor problem for computers throughout the University...
...biggest worries in a sustained market downturn is that it might depress consumer confidence and spending. Contrary to popular belief, though, big stock market drops alone rarely herald recessions. According to a study by Peter Temin, an economics professor at M.I.T., falling stock prices directly caused only one minor economic downturn in this century...
...Andre Previn has conducted symphony orchestras throughout the world, composed scores for Broadway (Coco) and Hollywood (Bad Day at Black Rock) and even written a dryly witty autobiography (No Minor Chords: My Days in Hollywood). Now he's finally got around to his first opera, a three-hour-long adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, commissioned by the San Francisco Opera. Previn, who turned 69 in April, knows he's leading with his chin--nearly all the great opera composers of the past got started in their 20s or 30s--so he has taken out a classy piece...