Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...making group, voted, in effect, to confirm that it was temporarily loosening up on tight-money policy so that the economy could begin growing more rapidly. Said one official somberly: "We could not afford to wait another five or six weeks." Although he insisted that this was only a minor technical change with "zero policy significance," Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker confirmed the shift during a weekend meeting of business leaders in Hot Springs...
...though, Boston theatergoers will have to resign themselves to a somewhat imperfect theatrical experience, a small price to play for seeing the show here at all. Several minor performances, especially Jill Geddes' as Peron's former mistress, rival those of the leads. Above all else, Webber's consistently haunting and melodic score makes an Evita ticket a worthy investment...
...Route 53. The investigators' chilling theory: the murderer had driven along 53, turned off at randomly selected points and placed one bottle of poisoned capsules in each store, to be bought by the next or third or 15th man, woman or child who walked in seeking relief from minor distress...
Solomon: "Mr. President, there are problems, but we can sign with some very minor amendments." The amendments are drafted for approval by the Algerians...
...deep in a field of 1,100 child violinists, cellists and pianists who were all taught by his learning-through-imitation method, Shinichi Suzuki waved his bow. Thousands of fingers tensed, and the second annual Chicagoland Suzuki Music Festival began on a note by Veracini (his Sonata in E Minor). Though hundreds of thousands of students have been taught by the Suzuki method since he introduced it more than three decades ago (including Rosalynn and Amy Carter, who took joint lessons in the White House), the 83-year-old master modestly professes to not playing as well as he might...