Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hometown at the age of seven. He turned down a chance to study in Paris with the late Nadia Boulanger, teacher of three generations of American composers. "It wasn't a casual 'No,'" he recalls. "I was developing a way with music that would be better off minus the labels on everything, minus the descriptions, minus the analysis...
...often a student can make the choice between living in a cramped bedroom or a common room. However, there are many situations in which bedrooms simply can't reasonably accommodate more students (this often happens in the case of "n minus one" rooms), and it is then that hapless individuals are stuck in common rooms and left to flounder. Harvard is doing an inexcusable disservice to its tenants, who have no choice but to pay thousands for a room and then hope for the best...
Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family will be reburied next February in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Petersburg. The family was slain by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg in 1918, and their remains (minus those of son Alexei and daughter Anastasia) were exhumed in 1992; DNA tests later confirmed the imperial identities...
Results from the random sample of 1,008 adults have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points...
...Bioengineered DNA was, weight for weight, the most valuable material in the world. A single microscopic bacterium, too small to see with the naked eye, but containing the genes for a heart-attack enzyme, streptokinase, or for 'ice-minus,' which prevented frost damage to crops, might be worth $5 billion to the right buyer." There is popularity in a passage like that. It bears information a man, even a casual-reading man, can do something with. Win a bar bet. Pass the time creatively on the scaffold with the hangman. It is skinny with legs. Crichton is Captain Reliable...