Word: slight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cherry Coke is the latest salvo in a tough marketing war among soft-drink makers. The new flavor could put a crimp in sales of Dr Pepper, which has a slight cherry flavor. Coca-Cola's current Pepper-type offering, called Mr. Pibb, has done poorly. This time the company hopes to ensure its new product's success by using the Coke label. It learned the magic of that name in 1983, when its diet Coke became an instant...
...could be a scene out of "Fame": a box in the corner cranks out the music, a slight figure in black yet is out the beat, and 23 bodies jump, spin, and twist across the room...
...reasonable prospect that the management would supply evidence in the foreseeable future to demonstrate satisfactory progress. Harvard should soon have enough information to conclude whether any of the three companies with which dialogue is still in progress are so unresponsive to our efforts and show such slight prospects of improvement as to warrant similar action...
Approximately 30 percent of people seeking shelter are suffering from some form of mental retardation-from slight learning disabilities to severe emotional difficulties, according to Hines. This is partially a result of the deinstitutionalization that occurred during the 1960's, when many marginally mentally ill patients were released from mental institutions...
...century before the development of vaccines for the disease in the 1950s, about 10% died, while many of the survivors, like Ragans, suffered some degree of paralysis. Stricken at age eleven, she was at first confined to a wheelchair, but gradually recovered enough to lead a normal life. Her slight difficulty in walking and partly paralyzed right arm did not prevent her successful career as an art instructor and painter...