Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle management personnel. Mutual of Omaha estimated that sales of flight insurance have soared 25% since the strike began. But what appears to be deterring potential passengers is not so much the safety factor as delays and scrambled schedules. "Safety does not seem to be even a minor consideration," says Delta Air Lines Public Relations Manager Bill Berry. "They are more concerned about return-flight cancellations...
Railway lines, power stations and shopping centers have been the most frequent targets for the ANC, though damage in almost all cases so far has been slight and human injuries have been minor. Two weeks ago, ANC militants fired four 122-mm artillery rockets into the Voortrekkerhoogte military base outside Pretoria: three failed to explode and only one person was hurt. But the attacks have proved 1) that the ANC insurgents, however badly trained they may be on the whole, are well armed and can handle heavy weapons and explosives, and 2) that they do not shy away from inflicting...
Traditionally, nurses have been physicians' handmaidens, often unable to make even minor decisions on patient care. Nurses say they want more responsibility and more autonomy and not to be treated simply as someone who is there to empty bedpans. Says Burma Garrett, a Florida operating-room nurse who quit after 16 years: "All the money in the world is not going to compensate for the abuse we take from doctors. Once the new nurses have been in the field a while, they'll discover that those advertisements don't mean a thing...
From the most remote Brittany fishing village to the tiniest French Alpine hamlet, no local matter is too minor to escape the attention of the Paris government. The Atlantic coastal town of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer wants to extend a street? It needs the signatures of the Minister of the Interior and the Premier before the asphalt can be poured. A poultry association in the small Vendee city of Challans wants to produce Christmas turkeys? It must satisfy the Ministry for Agriculture that its birds meet national standards. And so it has long been in France, the Western nation with...
...even though antibiotics can have toxic side effects. U.S. physicians, for instance, know that Chloramphenicol should be prescribed only for life-threatening infections, since it can cause a breakdown in red blood cells. Physicians in Latin America, however, have been urged by manufacturers to use the drug for such minor ailments as tonsillitis and whooping cough...