Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minor reactions to the vaccine, such as redness and swelling, are common. Permanent brain damage, according to one study, occurs only once in about every 300,000 inoculations, death even less frequently. Researchers suspect that these severe complications--which can include convulsions, shock, loss of muscle control and fever--are caused by bacterial toxins. Still, most doctors insist that the shots are worth the risks. Martin Smith, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, calculates that the chances of suffering serious damage from whooping cough are ten times greater than having damaging side effects from the vaccine. Says Dr. Peter...
...tried to enforce a no-amendments stand in order to preserve the delicate balance of the measure, which lowers and simplifies tax rates in return for wholesale elimination of exemptions and deductions. But fellow Senators, their tempers frayed by two late-night sessions, offered 62 amendments, mostly general but minor. A few, however, were phrased in the confusing Unocal style to offer favors to specific companies, industries or projects (Walt Disney Productions, the makers of cellular telephones and the Houston Astrodome, to cite three examples from the Finance Committee bill). Finally, with lawmakers lining up to introduce 60-odd additional...
...after day Rogers made minor corrections in his commission's course, added and subtracted subtleties, coped with small explosions (Pilot Chuck Yeager's absence from commission meetings became a public issue). The commission's speed and competence have been praised on all sides. Rogers' experience is no small part of the success...
...familial instinct at a ^ time when young women have other demands made on their minds and bodies. The point of view is largely that of Sophie, the second daughter, who coolly focuses on incidents that span some dozen years. The book is in nine episodes that could be, with minor adjustments, independent stories. "Hiding," the opening section, locates the emotional poles of the Vincent family. With a mischievous "hee hee hee," Rosie crams herself and her children into a huge linen closet. The point is to play a trick on Daddy, but Daddy won't play. He returns home...
Rivera became a cubist after 1913, but he was no mere follower. Not only are his cubist canvases a lot bigger and more fiercely colored than those of most of his contemporaries, but they strike a peculiar stance between boldness and indecipherability, making the work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail...