Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their underlings to demonstrate their own importance. Gromyko will often call a meeting of his three or four ranking assistants and, if he is in a bad mood, vilify them as "dolts" or "schoolboys" who are "not fit to work in the Foreign Ministry." A report with a few minor errors or a document submitted late can touch off one of these explosions, though it usually passes quickly...
...disoriented man caused a minor disturbance in a Medical School dorm last night, according to Harvard Deputy Chief of Police Jack W. Morse...
Nina I. Madden, assistant head tutor of Psychology and Social Relations, said the requirements for the new "minor" will be slightly more demanding than those for the standard concentration. Although the newly-created curriculum will cross departmental lines, it will remain under the umbrella of Psychology and Social Relations...
...younger Lamson, blown out of the fuselage and still buckled to his seat, undid the strap in a daze. "I ran away and the plane blew up and it knocked me down." He was hospitalized with minor cuts and burns. His father, also hurled from the cabin, was severely burned. Said the son: "God must have been with Dad and me." Robert Miggins, 45, a high school teacher in Plymouth, Minn., ran from the wreckage with his clothes afire. He suffered burns over 90% of his body. The three were the only survivors. Sixty-eight died, making it the worst...
...life-style support systems, including a 1/2- in.-thick electric shaver, a book-size radio, an even smaller iron, a collapsible fishing rod and a 5.3-oz. rechargeable power pencil sharpener. "They let me concentrate on the job," he explains, "instead of running around frantically trying to resolve a minor problem that could become a major...