Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign a $1 million contract with Calvin Klein, who is convinced that he has made "a major statement" with the jeans ads. What is astonishing about these huge sums of money is that although they are outlandish, they are not unheard of. No advertiser wants to make a minor statement, and the major ones run into six or seven figures. Lauren Hutton in 1973 signed an exclusive contract with Revlon. Tiegs has a two-year deal with Sears under which she lends her name to a line of jeans and tops and receives more than $1 million, plus a share...
...most of the evening. Northeastern penetrated the Crimson zone, spraying relentless booming slapshots at the Harvard defense and netminder Cheryl Tate, who despite nursing a minor knee injury which kept her from skating at Wednesday's practice, steered aside 32 Huskie drives...
...denied yesterday that he met Cohen in New York, saying he was there to work on the fund drive, and that Cohen "was not even a minor prospect for the fund drive...
Despite the low success rate for the procedure, "it presents little real danger for the mother except for minor interferences," Biggers, who published a report on test tube babies in yesterday's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, said. The danger of increased genetic defects is not high and the risk "is certainly not greater than if a parent carries an inherited receissive defect and decides to have a child anyway," he added...
...fairly be said, first of all, that the points made in the editorial are well taken. That the issue of longer library hours is trivial in the larger scheme of things is undeniable. This is made obvious in the contrast of this minor issue with the issue of American imperialism in El Salvador that appeared in an accompanying editorial. Even in the smaller scheme of things that constitutes Harvard University, the issue is relatively insignificant, as is clear from the issue of institutional sexism that was raised in yet another accompanying editorial...