Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several people could win today but Alexander and Ritson are slight favorites. But even if they finish on top, there will probably be a string of Crimson harriers right behind to win the meet. Cornell's secondary runners will have to do exceptionally well to break up this group...
This is the Yardlings first away game. and M.I.T.'s unusually narrow field may pose a slight problem to the high-powered Crimson offense, which scored its last 15 goals in two games. Getchel is still unsure of his starting line-up and hopes to get a look at his reserves today...
Ultra-violet measurements, like these, are important because ultra-violet rays from the sun occasionally interfere with earth's radio communications, and the energy from these invisible light waves supplies much of the solar heat that determines the earth's weather. Astronomers use slight, variations in the sun's ultra-violet spectrum as clues to the chemical and physical reactions goingon at various depths in the sun. By comparing satellite measurements of invisible radiation with earth-bound records of the sun's visible light, scientists should be able to predict some of these reactions and their effects on earth...
...seats in the Bundestag, and their share of the total vote dropped from 9.5% in 1965 to a mere 5.8% ?just above the 5% required for representation in the Bundestag. After three days of intense negotiations, the Free Democrats, who are led by Walter Scheel, threw their slight but decisive weight behind Brandt. At week's end the onetime outcast of West German politics informed President Gustav Heinemann that he was prepared to form a government in coalition with the Free Democrats and rule the Federal Republic...
...dust settled, John Kenneth Galbraith had the final word on the confusing afternoon. Moving to adjourn, he said "Let us admit there is some slight ambiguity in our postion, but that is always the case with any parliamentary body...