Word: slights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approached the position so technically and professionally," says Tri-Captain Ellen O'Neill. "She always maintained a high standard of what to expect from herself. She's slight of size, so what she locked in size, she made up for in quickness. She's such a technician...
...billion alcohol industry is having trouble coping with the new fashion, which neither it nor any other group predicted. While bottled water soared (see chart), distilled-spirits consumption fell from 2.88 gal. per adult in 1974 to 2.46 gal. in 1984. Brewers registered their first (though slight) slump since 1957--from 36.9 gal. per person in 1980 to 35.1 gal. in 1984--despite the introduction of low-alcohol brews like Anheuser-Busch's year-old LA. Wine growth, which experienced significant leaps in the 1970s, has slowed. One reason: the industry was late in developing softer lines. The Seagram...
...Since he took office after his mother's assassination, Gandhi, 40, has given top priority to dealing with the Sikh crisis. For the past three years, that struggle has focused on Punjab, a northwestern state in which the Sikhs, a relatively prosperous 2% minority in greater India, have a slight majority. Tensions came to a head last June after armed Sikh radicals, many of them demanding an independent state to be called Khalistan, barricaded themselves in the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine. After a week-long standoff between the rebels and the government, the Indian army stormed...
...Cambridge be informed that their aid level is lower than Harvard thinks allowable? Will students simply spend more time working on outside jobs, thus leathering the time to graduation? Does Harvard really want to spread it's financial resources as than as possible Surely, erring on the side of slight benefitting students better than the alternative...
This amiable grandee was born with the century, to English parents of solidly Germanic background, Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse, granddaughter of the English Queen. Prince Louis, who had switched nationality at 14 to join the English navy, never lost his slight German accent, and in 1914, despite an illustrious naval career, was hounded from his post as First Sea Lord by anti-German public frenzy. Mountbatten, his second son (the family name was anglicized in 1917 at the direction of King George V), never forgot the injustice, and counted his own posting...