Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fans but all the lives that depend on them. Fortunately, the San Diego Chicken has managed to cope. The Chicken, a cheerleader disguised as wacky poultry who has made himself famous by acting exuberantly weird at major league games, anticipated the strike and scheduled 30 appearances in June at minor league games. "Us chickens like the farms," he crows...
...bilingual students. Of the $13 billion available for education, only $585 million was put into a block grant. The committee also refused to go along with Reagan's plan to eliminate legal aid for the poor, though funding was cut from $321 million to $100 million. Many minor health programs were rolled into block grants, but even there the committee added stringent requirements on how the funds must be used. Said disgruntled Republican Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana: "These appear to be categorical grants disguised as block grants...
...Chirac and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The final agreement led to the erection of the 70-MW reactor at the Tammuz nuclear center in the desert at El-Tuwaitha. It was supported by an 800-kW minireactor, separately housed and untouched by the raid, that was used for minor experiments and to prepare radioactive materials...
...that issue, the negotiations foundered. To maintain competitive balance, the owners argued, clubs had to receive a player comparable in stature to the departing free agent. Under their proposal, a team that signed a free agent would be allowed to exempt 15 players from its major and minor league rosters; the player's original team would be able to pick a compensatory player from those who remained...
...thing off his chest once in a while, he might lose his self-control. Without letters the London Times would be devoid of its liveliest pages; there would be no great literary epistles like Pope's to "Dr. Arbuthnot"no epistolary novels like Pamela and Clarissa-a minor loss, but a loss nonetheless, the loss of a form. That is what a letter is, after all: a literary form, like a sonnet. It is not as defined as a sonnet. Still one looks for things to be said in letters that are not said elsewhere, expecting truth most...