Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which seems to enjoy producing controversy as much as classics, the settlement was a victory. For the rest of us, the settlement is a minor defeat, weakening some important but usually unrecognized ideas about the protection of intellectual property...
BRITAIN. Samuel Brittan expects an increase in growth from last year's 1.5% to 3.5% in 1985. British coal miners have now been on strike for eleven months, but he says that is having a minor effect on the economy because there have been no fuel shortages and workers are drifting back to the pits. He expects inflation to fall from 4.8% in 1984 to 4.5%. In Brittan's view, the government of Margaret Thatcher is quietly "giving the modest stimulus to the economy that some of its critics are asking for." In fact, bank credit has been growing faster...
...virologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Strauss went to nearby Pasadena to assure parents, teachers and union officials that their fears were unfounded. Although the herpes viruses can be dangerous for newborns (sometimes causing blindness, mental retardation or even death), they present a relatively minor risk to school-age children. In fact, by age 18, some 80% to 95% of Americans have been exposed to at least one of the five types of herpes viruses; most experience no symptoms at all. True, some 10% to 30% of those exposed to herpes simplex Type 1 will develop...
Will Bobby go public with the truth? Will he create a new scandal with his love affair? In his first novel, Jordan, author of a poignant memoir about minor-league baseball, A False Spring, continues to show a canny sense of time and place. His descriptions of the stressful world of the freelance, his evocations of athletes' bars, locker rooms and motels have verisimilitude and humor. True, Jordan's plot, like his characters, is a bit worn, but it is also, like them, wholly credible...
...scene where Adela's servant is brewing tea in a porcelain toilet bowl, for example--the film does sink occasionally into pomposity. Too many intense closeups or large-scale shots of clamoring, turbaning masses, combined with a bombastic, schmaltzy musical score, sometimes prove overwhelming. Still, with its minor problems, it is a daring and breathtaking film...