Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardly anyone in Washington entertains the illusion that Congress will be satisfied with so minor a reduction. The legislators are certain to ax far more than $8 billion from military outlays and to demand that arms purchases share in the slashes. Almost everyone on Capitol Hill seems to have a hit list of costly weapons that could be dumped without injuring national security...
...minor mutiny ends, the U.S. reaffirms its support
...tried not to get so anxious over such a minor point. After, all, isn't this Fair Harvard--where feminist Betty Friedan is a "Fellow" at the IOP, and the Straus Cup competition includes one sport named "Volleyball" and another named "Women's Volleyball" (with fewer points going to the winner of the latter)? Where women trying to study Women's Studies as a Special Concentration are expected to "prove their seriousness" by overcoming obstacles designed to rival the Twelve Labors of Hercules...
...private savings this year and 79% in 1984, leaving far too little lendable money to finance business investment and consumer buying. The all-too-predictable result: abrupt choking off of any worthwhile recovery from the recession that drove the jobless rate in December to 10.8%, a minor increase from a revised figure of 10.7% in November, but still a 41-year high...
...have been the most compelling performance of her career, but Elizabeth Taylor's "mission of peace and understanding in the Middle East" closed out of town last week. In and out of hospitals since arriving in Israel a fortnight ago-first for a breathing problem, then following a minor car accident-the actress, surrounded by her courtiers, braved her way through early rounds of meetings with a professional élan that would have warmed the heart of Eleonora Duse or, for that matter, Philip Habib. Swathed in a neck brace and with bandaged leg and finger, Taylor, looking...