Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ferraro seemed fired up by her press conference, eager to get back into the political fight. Zaccaro, who has lost ten pounds in a fortnight, appeared tired. In the rush of events, he had postponed checking into a hospital for a minor hernia operation-an added problem in what Ferraro described as "one of the worst weeks of our lives...
Troubling her too is an imbalance she detects in the whirlwind of press reports. Among the examples she cited were the screaming headlines in local newspapers about peeling paint and other minor building violations in properties managed by Zaccaro, despite a solid endorsement of his record voiced by a New York City housing official. As she put it: "Over a number of years, P. Zaccaro Co. [the firm founded by his father] has managed thousands of buildings, been involved in probably thousands of sales and maybe tens of thousands of leases. With all that volume, if you want to question...
...Victor Hugo Tinoco: three in Manzanillo and a fourth at a motel on the outskirts of Atlanta. As a sign of good faith, both sides have remained determinedly close-mouthed about the discussions. U.S. diplomats in Washington, however, have revealed that only two of the meetings were spent on minor procedural issues. Says a U.S. official: "There has been no grandstanding or stalling. The talks moved quickly into a serious discussion of the issues that divide...
...Wallace, the missed interview made three nights in a row of minor irritations. On the convention's first evening, he looked for moderates who dissented from the platform, but three people on his list were away from their seats, and a fourth declined to be openly critical, so he had to switch gears and interview a skeptic from the right, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. The next night Wallace's scheduled interview with Barbara Bush, the Vice President's wife, was truncated to two questions. But he had good luck as well: he had perhaps the clearest...
...assess the damage done another victim of the act he abetted-he could not say. And the movie is resolute in its refusal to speak for him or, indeed, for anyone caught in the narrative web it constructs out of loosely woven naturalistic fibers. As it demonstrates through its minor figures the stupefaction that permanent conflict imposes on its victims, the film permits Cal to draw closer and closer to the older woman, upsetting the silent compromise she was on the verge of making with life. He gets a job on the farm and then a place to live there...