Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smiles. He expects victory, and that allows him to relax a little. In the first round of balloting on May 4, Waldheim, with 49.7%, fell short of an absolute majority by only 16,500 votes. His Socialist opponent, former Health and Environment Minister Kurt Steyrer, received 43.7%. Two minor candidates who got the remaining votes are not participating in the runoff...
Outside of the campus, Kashani has done some "very minor volunteer work" for political campaigns. Even though he is attending Harvard Law next year, he is unsure about whether he will engage in any political action in the future: "I have to see that when I get there. I don't think there's as much activity at the Law School as with undergraduates." Kashani's politics are one of response, not initiation, attempting to balance the the debate rather than further the cause in a concrete manner, he says...
...main achievement during his tenure as Foreign Secretary was the suasion of Mrs. Thatcher that she had to deal with Mr. Mugabe in Zimbabwe. He should get enormous credit; they were absolutely against him," says MacFarquhar. "A minor but important human achievement was persuading Margaret Thatcher to accept the boat people" after visiting Hong Kong to guage their plight...
...Missile had been made, and Carrington served chiefly as a steadying hand. Since then, NATO hasn't been in the media nearly as much. Some analysts see this lower profile as a tribute to Carrington: "The alliance doesn't make news when it works," says Haass. The minor crises--the dispute over action against Libya, the sporadic battling of Greece and Turkey, the near departure of Spain from NATO--haven't worsened, and internal discussions about tactical and strategic issues haven't deteriorated...
...recounting the trials and the other third recounting the appeals process. He also introduces some evidence that could never have been brought to trial--Truman Capote's assertion that he had seen Sunny inject herself and that she was a well-known drug user, and the assertions of a minor drug dealer who said he had delivered drugs to Sunny...