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...Using a slight head wind, Dartmouth edged out the visiting Black and White...
...last sound she ever heard was a slight whoosh of air as a lead pipe descended on the back of her skull...
...There is always some slight--and sometimes, not so slight--suspicion about a professor who spends time in administration," Dreben adds, but he says that situation is better than the alternative--unsympathetic professional administrators...
...third piece was almost a slight disappointment after the first two energy-filled dances. Calteu Song Without Words," the work, was accompanied with music by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Primarily a modern ballet, the dance, however, was heavily influenced by modern styles since the dancers did not wear traditional ballet shoes. While it was a mellow, pleasant piece that was danced well, it lacked an accompanying force and drive. The sequence contained a series of duets interspersed by a solo and a quartet. The pas de deus were the highlight, usually interesting if not exciting...
...care programs, retirement and disability pay, unemployment compensation, welfare, aid to education and social services. The combined impact of budget and tax cuts on families earning less than $10,000 a year, the study found, was that the loss of benefits from these programs more than wiped out their slight gains from the tax cuts. Counting only cash benefits, their losses exceeded their gains by an average of $160 per household in 1983. Families with incomes above $40,000 (14.6% of U.S. households) had the largest net gains: an average of $2,240 each last year...