Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the piscine onslaught continued during play, referee Pierre Belanger took measures to control the crowd, punishing the Big Red with a two-minute minor for delay of game...
...minor flap arose just before the President's speech because Reagan decided to keep the top tax rate on "earned" (essentially wage and salary) income at 50%. That annoyed New York Congressman Jack Kemp, co-author of the tax plan whose main features Reagan adopted: Kemp had thought the rate would come down to 36%. He and others argue that deep tax cuts are especially needed in high brackets to prompt the wealthy to switch money out of tax shelters into more productive savings and investment...
...rink. Casey picked up a game misconduct for spearing Ken Code just below the throat after the whistle had blown four minutes into the game. Luckily for all concerned, Code only missed one shift. In the interest of fairness, it must be mentioned that Code drew a two-minute minor for high-sticking on the play, but that is no defense for Casey's retaliation...
Curricular topics under review include minor fields of study and museum training. Oleg Grabar, chairman of the department, said yesterday, calling the current museum training "half-baked, for the time being...
While Rubenstein writes adroitly, his style causes some minor problems. Because he writes thematically (and chronologically within each theme) he cites quotations two or three times in several cases. He also assumes that the reader already has specific knowledge of the subject, for he never clarifies what losing membership in the Communist Party or Writer's Union implies. Often, the introduction of new dissidents throughout scatters the chronology and one loses track of years. One also gets no real feeling of just how widespread the movement really...