Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the National League for Democracy claimed victories even in districts populated almost exclusively by military families, including the home district of reclusive Ne Win, who resigned his post as party chairman in 1988, but remains the most powerful man in the country. Other observers are worried that the slightest hint of civil disturbance may provoke the military to repeat the butchery of 1988, which resulted in the massacre of more than 3,000 demonstrators. The league can hope only that the apparent longing for democracy displayed by soldiers at the ballot box will translate into a public show...
AMERICANS have traditionally been willing to do anything to protect the environment--anything, that is, that does not involve the slightest inconvenience to themselves. Even after Earth Week is over, it is important to remember that the daily choices we make as consumers and citizens can help or hinder efforts to bequeath a habitable planet to our children...
...would need better actors than these to turn this sickly Shakespearian failure play into something with the slightest dramatic appeal. The Huntington Theatre Company's production of Cymbeline, with its crude Celtic glamour and fairytale ending, never rises above melodrama...
...black paintings. Odd little signs -- a blurt of pigment here, a "Have a Nice Day" face there -- float in front of the room. You get the impression that Moskowitz, who has been a Zen student most of his adult life, is repeating a sort of koan without giving the slightest clue to its meaning...
...Boston University's president, John Silber, was asked if he'd gleaned any early lessons from his introduction to politics. Said the former philosophy professor with characteristic snap, crackle and pop: "It advises me to be less interesting, to learn to speak plastic, so that no one has the slightest idea what you're talking about...