Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wolff said, there are hints that Bach was aware of his own talents. "I think he did recognize his own greatness," Wolff said. "He composed the Mass in B Minor with an eye toward posterity...
Cubs Manager Jim Frey, a minor-league batting champion of 1957, used to soak his bats in motor oil, an appropriate balm for one whose travels led him practically everywhere but to the major leagues. While awaiting promotion with the St. Louis Cardinals, though, Frey once drew near enough to Stan Musial to hear a definition of a doubleheader that stayed with him. "That's when Stanley can get ten hits in one day!" Musial exclaimed. "Think of it, ten hits!" On such optimum expectations, all Cubdom is founded, even in the after-math of three season-ending losses...
Atlanta Reporter Leslie Cauley, who talked to state police officials and judges in Georgia and South Carolina, learned last December how even a minor incident could affect her. Returning to her car one night, she found the window vent broken and the glove compartment rifled. Angry, she headed home. "I was on the interstate when it hit me. I started to shake as I considered what might have happened if I had come upon my thief. In my anger, what would I have done? And what, in his desperation, would he have done...
...time inspired partly by the plight of Texas banks laden with bad loans in energy and real estate. Meanwhile, everyone from divorce lawyers to the FBI was busily looking for culprits in the failure of Home State Savings, the Cincinnati thrift whose sudden collapse last month touched off a minor financial panic. The scare forced Governor Richard Celeste to close Ohio's 69 privately insured thrifts in the largest U.S. bank holiday since the Depression...
...Texas Commerce Chairman Ben F. Love, who had a longstanding reputation for cautious lending. Investors regard Love's stumble as a bad sign for Texas banks in general. Says Robert Walters, an analyst at Austin's Sheshunoff investment firm: "The problem loans are startling. It is more than a minor disappointment...