Word: minority
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Despite the minor disruptions and moderate increases, Communications Workers President Glenn Watts called the strike a "success in every sense." The importance of the A T & T settlement lies in a set of agreements to help workers adjust to the increasingly rapid rate of economic and technological change. Said Pat Choate, a labor specialist with TRW, the defense and aerospace company: "I'd be surprised if these conditions don't become part of other contracts and even more surprised if they don't find themselves endorsed in national legislation...
...anti-Soviet gambit." Reagan Administration officials acknowledge privately that they were not averse to letting the Soviets suffer a bit of embarrassment over the incident. They also admit that any attempt to prevent Andrei's departure would have been legally dubious, since he was both a minor in the custody of his parents and held a diplomatic-status visa, which prohibits "any form" of detention. Nevertheless, they felt morally obliged, as one put it, to find out "what was really in his mind." One reason: according to a senior presidential adviser, the FBI told the White House that there...
...decision assured Nkomo of a continuing, although minor, role in Zimbabwe's politics. Still, the humiliating ordeal emphasized the opposition leader's waning influence. Mugabe and Nkomo had shared leadership of the seven-year guerrilla war that in 1980 ended white rule of the country, then known as Rhodesia. Since that time, however, Mugabe has systematically undermined his former partner's power. Earlier this year, government troops, most of them members of Mugabe's dominant Shona tribe, killed hundreds of Nkomo's Ndebele tribesmen in what was billed as a campaign against dissenters...
...Cage aux Folles has found the chemical equation that makes gross faults appear small, minor virtues look large, and major achievements seem more so. Despite its gay theme, it is a sentimental show that extols the values of love, honor and fidelity to home and family; consequently, in both Boston and New York City, it seems to have drawn audiences that are largely straight. In Barry and Hearn, moreover, it boasts what may be the most romantic team of the year...
...struggle for that scoop is only a minor episode in a far more epic battle: the one between Millstein and the national editor for the job of editor in chief. Indeed, to the Newspaper's scribblers, nearly every event in the newsroom, and in the world at large, is important only in terms of office intrigue. "When the copy editors crossed your commas out, people made an interpretation of your standing vis-a-vis Ron and of Ron's standing vis-a-vis [the national editor] and of both their standings in the eyes of [the editor...