Word: minority
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Diane Jellis, an official in the Associated Harvard Alumni office, said that the high number of female candidates and the overall drop in the size of the field could not be explained as a drop in student interest, since the statistics were only a minor aberration from recent trends...
...greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event-an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. In what they said and did, men were still, as in the aftershock of a great wound, bemused and only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only...
...Yeshiva students and other Jews in the ethnically diverse north Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights. On June 7, four bullets were fired at Yeshiva's five-story brick administration building; two days later, someone fired six .223-cal. blasts at Jewish Memorial Hospital. Neither attack caused more than minor property damage; no one was hit. But two weeks after that four still unidentified people pumped 20 shots from a passing car into a neighborhood luncheonette known as a Yeshiva student hangout, wounding three of the 50 students inside...
Late last week, the announcement of a cease-fire was expected momentarily. The Lebanese Cabinet discussed a draft agreement Friday, and sent Lebanese Businessman Rafiq Hariri to Damascus with some minor changes. There was speculation that Gemayel would announce the agreement in a Friday-evening address marking the end of his first year in office...
...unbalanced Lieut. Commander Queeg. Clearly awed to be in the company of such all-pro actors as Michael Moriarty, 42, who plays Defense Attorney Barney Greenwald, and Philip Bosco (Queeg), 53, Namath calls the role "my greatest thrill so far in show business." Broadway Joe has only one minor problem: the military haircut ordered by the director. Says Namath: "At least it doesn't take long...