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Word: minutia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s a great way to learn about the intricacies of different beers. Even those familiar with beer learn about the minutia behind brewing,” he said...

Author: By Christen B. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beer Flows Freely at Queen’s Head | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...course, if you've ever spent any time on Facebook or Twitter, you know that much of what people post is simply the boring minutia of daily life. Did we really need to know what Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley was doing for New Year's? ("I didn't stay up to see Ball drop. I will watch Hawkeyw ftball. Otherwise read. Not a very exciting new year celebration but tradition for me.") Or that McCaskill broke her diet on Saturday and had a chocolate mousse with raspberry sauce? Probably not, but if Americans really want an unvarnished look at their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...Barbara Allen, the district’s human resources director. Allen said that the best course of action would be to follow the set time line, especially coming into the holiday season. “I’d hate to see us get trapped in the minutia and numbers and not get out there and do the recruiting that we need to do,” she said. David E. Gee, one of the consultants involved in the search, also told the committee that recalibrating the results would not alter the recommended characteristics significantly. Schuster added that the results...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Superintendent Search Advances | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...hopes were to do whatever we could to optimize that process so TFs could focus their time more on the teaching aspect rather than the minutia of adding or subtracting points,” Malan said. “Tablet PCs struck us as a wonderful opportunity technologically to chip away at what is otherwise a fairly laborious process...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CS 50 TFs Given Free Tablet PCs | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...Lanre-Amos is happy with her self-proclaimed “married woman” lifestyle. “It’s nice to have somebody you can always talk to. I know everything down to the little minutia of what’s going on with his life, be it injuries or sleeping patterns or dietary habits...

Author: By Sarah B. Schechter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Love, Actually | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

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