Word: minoring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Under your predecessor, New Zealand was widely seen as a solid global citizen with an independent foreign policy, but also perhaps as a nation content to play a very minor role in world affairs. Do you agree with that characterisation, and do you have a different vision for New Zealand's place in the world? I'm not sure I would totally agree with that. I think most New Zealanders would have seen Helen Clark's greatest strength, outside her ability to manage in our Mixed Member Proportional system, as being the role she played on the international stage...
...Rays’ sudden success has been attributed to a renewed focus on developing young minor-league talent and increasing the team’s fan base...
While Silverman and his team have succeded in some areas—including picking up talented players in low-profile minor league trades, there have also been hurdles along...
...Dismissed by critics and largely ignored at the box office (its $44 million haul didn't even crack the year's 15 top-grossing titles), Scarface arrived on the scene as a decidedly minor event. But Tucker recounts how the movie gradually "got away from its [middle-aged, white] creators" and became a hit among "largely young, black and Hispanic" fans. The book examines how De Palma's work redefined the way films addressed on-screen violence and drug use and how the intensity of its misogyny, money worship and drug euphoria was embraced by hip-hop and gangsta...
There are a couple of ways law-abiding citizens can abandon children in Nebraska. Sometimes a desperate parent will tell a child that he or she is going to the hospital for something minor, like a rash - then in the emergency room, the child waits and waits, only to discover that the doctors are there but the parent has walked away for good. Or unruly teenagers might simply be dumped at the ER door. "A parent will pull up and say, 'All right, get out of the car,' " says Lisa Stites of Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha. In other...