Word: minors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study recommended making him the principal military adviser to the President and the National Security Council. In addition, the report called for Congress to handle the defense budget on a two-year cycle, instead of annually, in order to force legislators to concentrate on broad issues rather than minor details. While many military observers supported the study, senior Pentagon officials remained unconvinced, expressing reluctance toward changing the system...
...four of Steve's older brothers played college hockey with the same intensity that the youngest son exhibits and one parlayed his attitude and skills into a season with the 1982-83 U.S. National team and a short minor league career...
...leading education institutions and as the home of some of the most important liberal and conservative thought in the country, Harvard's decision to divest would add moral and intellectual credibility to the divestiture movement as a whole. The impact of such a move would far outweigh any minor workplace improvement made possible by what Harvard has euphemistically called "intensive dialogue...
More yesterday identified the officer as Robert Osborne and said Osborne suffered a minor neck injury which will keep him out of work for another week...
These are familiar techniques of dramatic persuasion. Less excusable are the many instances where the movie slants the evidence to bolster its parable of Southern injustice. During Williams' trial, minor points made by the defense are highlighted, while prosecution witnesses (including the fiber experts whose testimony linked Williams to several of the bodies) are regularly shot down by crafty cross-examination. Damaging pieces of evidence (like the bloodstains found in Williams' car) are omitted, as are the many contradictions in Williams' testimony. Indeed, Williams' only mistake at the trial appears to be losing his temper on the second...