Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of popular courses closely resembles last year's, with the top five slots remaining unchanged. Psychology and Social Relations S-15 and two introductory government courses (S-10 and S-50), gained slightly in enrollment, edging Biochemistry S-100 and Economics S-10 off the top-ten list. Total enrollment changes in these courses, however, were slight...
...effect of film and advertising, for example: "Before a child of our time finds his way clear to opening a book, his eyes have been exposed to such a blizzard of changing, colorful, conflicting letters that the chances of his penetrating the archaic stillness of the book are slight...
Indeed, about the only sign of cooling down in the economy last week was the Commerce Department's trade figures for May. Having deepened alarmingly earlier in the year, the overall trade deficit showed a slight decline, largely as a result of a drop in steel imports. Still, petroleum imports jumped another 5.8%, reflecting the nation's still increasing dependence on foreign...
...small step toward increasing its imports, Japan has recently lowered tariffs on some 124 items, worth about $2 billion. But about a third of the reduction was on shrimp, which the U.S. does not ship to Japan. Tariff cuts on other items were also slight; the duty on computers was dropped from 13.5% to 10.5%, on color film from 16% to 11% and on tires from...
What troubles newsmen is that, in practice, police can often find a judge willing to issue a search warrant, with slight justification. And search warrants do not prevent investigators from poring over all sorts of things while looking for the specific evidence they are seeking. Journalists are afraid this could have a chilling effect on sources, who might choose to remain silent for fear that their names would be found on a stray scrap of paper during a search. Edward W. Barrett, publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, envisions a distressing scenario: "A newspaper in Blankville, Tenn., starts an expose...