Word: minorly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United Nations security unit. Between 20 and 30 North Korean soldiers crossed into U.N. territory while firing at the escapee, and the U.N. troops shot back. The defector was later reported to be in the care of U.S. military authorities in Seoul, 25 miles away. The incident cast a minor chill on a recent burgeoning of good will between the two Koreas. Only days earlier, the famous bargaining table at Panmunjom had been the scene of warm grins and vigorous handshakes between North and South Koreans, as the two sides agreed to end an eleven-year freeze on talks aimed...
More recently, New York City's Museum of Modern Art created a minor controversy when the director of its department of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, had the work of a few early modern masters, among them Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, refitted in no-frills borders. Part of Rubin's rationale was that undistracting borders would help to clarify continuities between the early modern painters and their inheritors, from Picasso through Johns, whose work elsewhere in the museum is likewise in simple frames. "Very successful," says Thomas Messer, director of the nearby Guggenheim Museum, which...
...added delight, Lurie serves her romantic comedy with a mix of entertaining minor characters. There's Fred's wife and her photo exhibition of the male organs Vinnie finds so distasteful, a Cockney housekeeper philosopher, and Edwin Frances, the "homosexual who likes to dress up in his hostess's clothes...
...proposals are close in intent and substance, urged the President last week to call the four legislators to the White House to hammer out a compromise. No one expects that to happen, however, since the Treasury Department will be pushing its own plan. Beyond that, even the seemingly minor differences in the bills loom very large when viewed from the perspective of those who would be hurt. The tax credit for new investments, for example, is worth some $29 billion a year to corporations; they see it as vital to a sustained recovery and would wage a fierce fight...
...Theodore Roosevelt who gave investigative journalists the title of muckrakers, but it was Ida Tarbell who perfected the technique. Her father, a minor Pennsylvania oil driller, was nearly ruined by John D. Rockefeller. Twenty years later she settled the score with her scathing 1904 History of the Standard Oil Company, which described some of the robber baron's sharper practices and led eventually to the dismantling of his empire. But as Kathleen Brady, a TIME reporter-researcher, points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time...