Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Melendez cited only two minor exceptions to the generally smooth elections. One involved a council candidate who helped watch a voting table for senior class marshalls and, therefore, sat at the same table where council ballots were distributed. This was clearly against the rules, he said...
...yesterday, Carlson said that the damage in the vault appeared "relatively minor", but facilities and maintenance still called in a testing company to inspect Eliot House's primary electrical system, the outlets serving student rooms...
Most Eliot residents interviewed said that the blackout was annoying, but a minor inconveniece. Some, however, said it was another in a string of inconveniences caused by renovation of the House. Marjana Martinic '86 and Clarissa Cerda '86 said they just received electricity in their bedrooms and bathroom last week...
...initially with a 2½-min. answer, then with a 1-min. follow-up and rebuttal. As Mondale wished, the second presidential debate is scheduled to come after the diversionary hubbub of the World Series, and the encounters will last 90 min. apiece. Each camp is gloating over a minor tactical triumph. The first debate will be on the same night as a nationwide Mondale fund-raising effort in more than 13,000 households; the second is scheduled to be televised opposite an N.F.L. game, which the Reaganites happily believe will draw millions of viewers away from the debate...
...oceangoing Soviet tug took the obviously stricken sub in hand and began towing it at a snail's pace in the general direction of Vladivostok, headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet. As the Japanese press closely followed the drama, defense officials in Tokyo quietly pondered a couple of minor mysteries: What was the warship, of a type capable of launching nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, doing only 56 miles off Japan's westerly Oki Island? And what had gone wrong? The Soviets were volunteering no answers...