Word: slight
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...trotted the final 200 yds. along an elevated bridge to Canton's ultramodern White Swan Hotel, the slight, blond runner was greeted by Guangdong province sports officials and svelte Chinese maidens in green cheongsams. But for Georgia's Stan Cottrell, 41, the greatest reward last week was simply finishing the 2,125-mile Great Friendship Run he had begun 53 days earlier from the Great Wall of China, northwest of Peking. "I call this a miracle run," said Cottrell, who held U.S. and Chinese flags as he was presented with a brown cloisonne trophy...
Perhaps more noteworthy than the actual change--which affects about five students each decade--was the slight controversy that surrounded the proposal...
...Government recalculated the third-quarter increase in the gross national product, or total output of goods and services, at a mere 1.9%, vs. 7.1 % in the previous three months. It reported a 7.3% drop in after-tax corporate profits during the third quarter. Moreover, October reports disclosed a slight but unexpected decline in consumer spending, and much bigger falloffs in housing starts (9.8%) and factory orders for durable goods...
...twice became Prime Minister of Norway; of a stroke; in Oslo. Known as the Norwegian Sphinx for his quiet authority, Bratteli organized his country's underground resistance to the Nazis in 1940; after his capture two years later, he survived six concentration camps. To a political opponent, the slight, ascetic Bratteli was "one of a dying race of social democrats who came from a poor background and made his way through the hard sweat of his own labor...
...slight additional fee will be charged for printing costs, center manager Peter J. Heffernan said this week...