Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last August when a preliminary design was presented to members during an informal meeting. Questions that arose during that meeting prompted the designers to refine the design prior to submitting a formal plan to members in November. At that meeting, commission members did not reject the plan but suggested minor modifications. These were made, and the plan was resubmitted and approved in December. Aida K. Press Director of Public Information Radcliffe College
...loss of U.S. grain markets in Spain and Portugal. Failure to meet the deadline will mean automatic 200% U.S. tariffs on a number of European products, notably wine, liquor and cheese. The problem is that the Europeans have promised to retaliate in kind, meaning that a major or minor protectionist trade war might already be in the offing...
...majority coalition cut across ideological lines. Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee and the court's only woman, joined the liberal Marshall in his opinion, as did William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and (with a minor exception) John Paul Stevens. Antonin Scalia, a philosophical conservative who is Reagan's only other appointee to the bench, wrote a separate opinion that agreed with the outcome but on narrower grounds...
...President has always devoted inordinate attention to minor matters. He held four or five consultations this month on the case of Belgian-born Anne Brusselmans, a hero in the World War II Resistance, and personally supervised a successful effort to cut through the red tape that had denied her resident status in the U.S. Although he has been unwilling to grapple with the controversy over his new budget plan, he was so moved by the stories of the Amtrak train wreck that he asked that some of those cited for performing heroic deeds be brought down this week...
There are encouraging signs that the Democratic election victory, the Iran affair and a few other minor mishaps will spawn a new reality in the White House. The rather temperate statements from the leaders of Congress at the opening session were passed around last week by the legislative liaison office to all the President's senior staff with the pointed implication that they ought to reply in kind...