Word: minored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Russians go to their mailbox or wait patiently in the midmorning kiosk queue for a copy of Pravda or Izvestia. Readers write the papers thousands of letters every week, usually complaining against some service or some minor bureaucrat. They have a private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn...
...face of spiraling costs, however, it is unlikely that any number of minor savings will solve the problem. Unless new sources of alumni support are found, or the University agrees to assume even larger portions of the budget, sweeping changes in the athletic program will become necessary...
...most powerful atom smasher now scheduled, and certainly the biggest. To build it, engineers will drive a tunnel two miles through the solid rock of a minor mountain near Palo Alto. This rocky housing will keep its radiation from frying innocent bystanders. At the accelerator's business end will be a complex knot of laboratory buildings stuffed with futuristic apparatus...
...professional traders had just about run out of things to say about the market. Wall Street's brokers and analysts have chewed the juice out of all the minor, technical reasons for the continuing rise. Now they are coming to recognize the great, overriding reason: business is fine and getting better. The U.S. is off on a brand new boom...
...work load was shouldered by officers and a few other dedicated individuals; important committee positions and minor chores were frequently left to the same people. While the caliber of membership was raised by appointed members, debate was often uninspired and based on little or no discussion with the students being "represented." Often the end of the meeting found less than a quorum present...