Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean one less magazine column, one less $3,000 honorarium for giving a speech to a business group and even one less journal article. In short, it would mean a slight shift in priorities. But surely it would also mean a more meaningful academic experience for many undergraduates. Wouldn't this be welfare-enhancing...
...mean one less magazine column, one less $3,000 honorarium for giving a speech to a business group and even one less journal article. In short, it would mean a slight shift in priorities. But surely it would also mean a more meaningful academic experience for many undergraduates. Wouldn't this be welfare-enhancing? CARLO N. FORCIONE...
...that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says McAllister, "has always been the hair-trigger nature of the enmity between India and Pakistan: The smallest slight always held the potential to escalate into all-out war." Now, he says, the two countries seem to have "loosened the rope of their relationship a bit"---and thus given themselves, and the rest of the world, more time to think before reacting to unexpected events...
...Gluck speaks to the Greeks without adopting their speech, she also eschews personal contract with her readers. Making copious use of the first person pronoun, Gluck nonetheless maintains distance. Although a good deal of Vita Nova is devoted to the regenerating power of memory, the memories recounted are usually slight images of rooms and smells. Gluck reveals herself largely through allegory and the retelling of myth, so that the presence of "I" throughout her book creates an atmosphere of polite poetics that never takes readers into themselves...
...still haven't figured out what I want to do after graduation. The days are getting warmer; the clock's hands are ticking louder in my ear. But at least I've figured out one thing I don't want to do. That little bit of progress, however slight, was worth a lot of rejection...