Word: slight
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...Crimson nearly made the slight lead stick, but with seven minutes to go in the game Amherst literally pounced on a crucial Harvard miscue to take the lead. The Cantabrigians won a ruck on their own five-yard line but a Harvard forward fumbled the ball in the endzone and Amherst recovered...
...slight departure from tradition, the women's swim team picked a sophomore star and a junior, who has not been a headline-grabber, as captains for next year...
...Paulovich never got the call. "Coach Higginson told me I was aggressive enough," he remembers, "but that I still lacked a certain smoothness, that my height was a distinct disadvantage." As he speaks of this obvious slight, there is no bitterness in Mike's voice, no remorse; rather. the tone is one of the steady plodder who never quits because of an intangible quality called pride...
...professors, former presidents of the American Historical Association (Morris) and the American Political Science Association (Burns), decided to redress the historical slight. They dreamed up Project 87 to celebrate America's next Bicentennial, that of the Constitution's adoption, with a cerebral, nine-year program sponsored by the two scholarly associations and culminating on Sept...
Industry, as well as the victims, would benefit from the bill, Soble explained. The ABC would charge a slight pollution tax to cover its administrative expenses. Because the pollution tax would be graduated by the level of risk the manufacturer posed to human health, each manufacturer would know precisely how dangerous its product was. The proposed legislation would also set up an Office of Ombudsman, which would provide industry with the latest data and research on safer and less costly anti-pollution technologies...