Word: slight
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...striped Adidas running shoes, the ruler--in fact if not in name--of Saudi Arabia hurls a ball down the turf and coaches a TIME correspondent in the finer points of the sport. "Be careful of the topography," he warns, using his palm to illustrate the hazards. "Even a slight grade can send the ball off course...
...don’t think there’s ever been a situation where the offspring of a Nobel Laureate has won a Nobel Prize,” he says. “People don’t quite understand genetics,” he says with slight frustration...
...would never have become one, were it not for his 28.8KB modem connection. He started looking at cyberporn in seventh grade. “I was at a friend’s house and he had the Internet set up,” he recounts with a slight smirk. “There was a message that said ‘Don’t click here if you’re not 18.’ So of course...
After the meeting, Birnbaum says the athletic department granted some of his wishes. The team was moved to the Palmer Dixon courts, which Birnbaum said he initially considered a slight upgrade...
Portugal's official 2001 budget deficit was 2.2%, enough to stir the ire of the European Commission. Durão Barroso says wryly that this was "only a slight variation of 100%" on the government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won't say where he would wield the ax but claims he will be tough on the state-funded institutions that grow around Portuguese governments like suckerfish around the mouth of a whale. "There were 130 of these six years ago," he says. "The Guterres government added another 78. Most...