Word: slighted
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...like Poe -- so overwrought, yet so influential. One sees, not for the first or only time, the paradox of American art in its larval days: how its course could be deeply affected, and the enthusiasm of its artists unstintingly engaged, by works whose actual aesthetic merits often seem slight...
...regulate growth. Some, called oncogenes, activate the process of cell division; others, known as tumor- suppressor genes, or anti-oncogenes, turn the process off. In their normal form, both kinds of genes, working together, enable the body to perform the critical function of replacing dead or defective cells. But slight alterations in the genetic material, whether inherited or caused by environmental insult, can provoke the rampant cell division that leads to cancer...
Jones, try as he might, couldn't write a tune. So he was cut out of the publishing revenues and the limelight. Jagger and Richards were too formidable for the slight, blond, increasingly tuned-out guitarist. Jones lost his grip on the group, and on his own life, and he died on the bottom of the swimming pool at his English estate, a property once owned by A.A. Milne, an author who believed in happier endings...
...next person in line had forgotten to bring a pen, and strangely enough, this caused a slight commotion. "Does anyone have a pen I can keep?" Bernstein asked above the noise...
...newspapers will persist in some form for a long time. Says analyst John Morton of the consultants Lynch Jones & Ryan: "There is still no cheaper or more economic way to deliver a mass amount of news to a mass audience." But in a business accustomed to high profit, a slight slippage can result in cutbacks of coverage. Some editors predict that newspapers will become repackagers, rather than originators, of information, dropping costly foreign bureaus and investigative projects in favor of wire- service copy. Other editors argue that what makes newspapers marketably different is depth and detail. One can only hope...