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Social Analysts 10 did experience a slight drop in enrollment from last year. Otto Eckstem, head professor for the course explained, "the economy is better, enrollment is down a little...
...There was a slight error, which concerns my African name, and if I may, I would like to spell it correctly...
...warden made a slight motion with his left hand, and a rifle volley shattered the silence. Four bullets tore into Gilmore's heart, twisting his body, which then turned limp. Blood slowly poured out, staining the bullet-pocked chair. Two minutes later, at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 17, Gary Gilmore was declared dead. He was the first prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since...
...ptomaine poisoning, which had compelled him suddenly to abandon his tour, was followed by a slight attack of pneumonia. For a day or two it did not seem as if he were throwing off the poison. Then gradual improvement followed. His temperature abated, his pulse approached normal. The bulletins of physicians in attendance had at first pronounced his condition "serious." Succeeding bulletins gave more and more encouragement to the hope that he would recover. Public apprehension was allayed...
...most perplexing. Once the home of the Phoenicians, it has been overrun at various times by Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, European Crusaders and Ottoman Turks. In 1932, when Lebanon was a French mandate, France conducted a national census that showed the Christians with a slight majority. When Lebanon became independent in 1943, followed by the evacuation of French troops three years later, the preponderance of political power was apportioned between Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims on the basis of the 1932 head count, with a minimal share of representation for such minority groups as the Druze...