Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scapegoat for lax fiscal supervision by Pitt trustees. A dynamic chancellor is too busy churning out ideas, they say, to audit the cash flow. They also argue that in upgrading Pitt, Litchfield chose a costly course: increased emphasis on graduate teaching and research, which require expensive facilities and slight the revenue-producing undergraduate enrollment...
...Thant, LL.D., Secretary-General of the United Nations. Neither rebuff nor slight has marred the dignity of your office, which is the world's best hope for a government under law which transcends nations...
...recession would be a boom anywhere else: the economy is still growing at about 7% a year. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato calls the Japanese slowdown "an adjustive stage after years of phenomenal growth," predicts an upsurge soon. Main problem: too many companies are deep in debt, vulnerable to slight dips in sales...
...government were spawned by jealous generals and accompanied by the rumble of tanks. Last week, as the four-month-old civilian government of Premier Phan Huy Quat turned power back to the military, the only signs of crisis were the gleaming limousines of the generals and a slight increase in the number of marines patrolling Saigon's rain-wet streets. Even when the turnover was finally effected, little had changed on the surface; both Quat and his antagonist, Chief of State Phan Khac Suu, remained in office as "caretakers" for the generals...
...this those who object to the plan recognized merely by saying that the executive committee would become the pawn of the Faculty directors. The price seemed slight, however, when weighed against the promise of an HDC renaissance. There were to be benefit performances to replenish the treasury; under existing arrangements the HDC made no money on Loeb shows. There were to be special benefits for HDC members: free tickets, lectures, a newsletter. The next week the constitution was ratified 39-1. An elected president was to represent the membership. At executive committee meetings, though, he would have no vote...