Word: slights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Ballet offered its own tribute to Romanticism in the authentic perfection of slight gestures: the demurely downcast eyes, the drooping curve of the arms, a dancer's hand to her cheek like a sprig of flowers. The four soloists on opening night (Thursday) were a study in the company's uneven strength. David Brown floundered, as though classical technique were a suit of clothes three sizes too big, while Anamarie Sarazin wandered dutifully through a colorless waltz. But dainty Stephanie Moy, who has improved noticeably over the past couple of years, darted about deft as a hummingbird. And Elaine...
...during the last recession). A. George Gols, an economist with Arthur D. Little, Inc., expects a recession that "only technicians will be able to define." There may not actually be two successive quarters of negative growth, he says. A quarter of decline might be followed by a quarter of slight growth, then back to a decline. "It will feel painful," says Gols. "When you sprain or fracture an ankle, it still hurts...
Amin avenges a slight...
...Nicholas J. Fiumara, director of the communicable disease division of the state Department of Public Health, said yesterday outbreaks such as these often occur at universities and that salmonella is not a serious infection. Its main symptoms are diarrhea, cramps and a slight fever, he added...
...casual, understated man with a slight New England accent, Belisle has spent the past nine years working for the Massachusetts Children's Protective Service, trying to prevent adults from beating, maiming and sometimes murdering children. He lives with the knowledge that such efforts are often unsuccessful. He also knows that reported incidents of child abuse in the state of Massachusetts have jumped from 122 in 1967 to 15,000 last year, an increase only partly due to a 1974 law redefining child abuse to include "neglect." "Nine years ago," he admits, "I thought I could go in and talk...