Word: slight
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...slight jab indicates, maybe it wasn't so bad. After all, along with all the downs yesterday, there were certainly many ups. At various points, I'm sure we all enjoyed laughing at the other side of the stadium. Although some of us, for different reasons, may find it difficult to remember yesterday's contest in specific detail, we will all acknowledge that it was more than just a football game...
This would, I am certain, almost definitely work if it were not for one slight problem--residence. Gore would get to live in Washington D.C. in the White House, since he got Washington's three electoral votes and Bush would--what? Build a second capitol in the Midwest? This would take too much time and effort. Dividing up the states like pieces of Halloween candy would not work so well...
...universe, the core of the Milky Way and the formation of stars. A bigger drawback is that adaptive optics can currently correct only for a small patch of atmosphere at the center of the telescope's field of view. But pockets of atmospheric turbulence are small enough that a slight change in viewing angle means a whole different pattern of distortions, which in turn requires a different pattern of corrections...
...electoral vote while losing the popular vote and that "it happened in 1888, when Benjamin Harrison defeated Grover Cleveland," even though Cleveland got 90,000 more popular votes. In case anyone has forgotten, it also occurred in 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Samuel Tilden despite Tilden's slight majority of popular votes. Ultimately, the choice of Hayes as President was made by a committee vote along strict party lines; nevertheless, Hayes' election stands as a second example of the antidemocratic potential of the Electoral College. CROSS G. MOORADIAN Detroit...
...substantially higher than Penn's 112.8 yards per game average, seventh in the Ivy. Matt Leiszler and Nick Palazzo, neither one the starter at the beginning of the season, give Harvard a potent one-two rushing attack to complement the passing game. Harvard's balanced attack could provide the slight edge necessary for a victory between these almost identical teams...