Word: slights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighter--as a veteran, as a district attorney, and as Lieutenant Governor, I've always been willing to take risks and in the Senate I want to take more," Kerry, a former Vietnam hero turned anti-war activist, has led the pack in recent polls, but only by a slight margin that many attribute to the recognition he receives in a statewide post...
...spite of slight lingering radio-activity" the Atoll Rongelap is safe for habitation. The exposed people from 1954 returned home with more than 200 Rongelap who were taken away from the atoll during the Bravo test. Brook haven National Laboratory doctors called this exposed group "an ideal comparison population for the studies...
...should not continue to do nearly as much exploration as the two were doing separately. In addition, they note that if the stock value of oil companies continues to go up, the resulting higher value for reserves swill encourage more drilling. Even the effect on crude prices will be slight. Economist Alan Greenspan of the Townsend-Greenspan consulting firm observes, "These mergers are, in the world scheme, not terribly relevant. Even if they were, it is a competitive market, and no matter what these oil companies might like to do, they can't affect the price of crude...
Jackson stands up when we enter the room. He is wearing black pants, a black short-sleeved shirt, a maroon tie decorated with the official Olympic seal. He is not quite 6 ft. tall, with thin legs and a slight paunch. On one wrist is a gold watch, on the other a gold chain bracelet with colored stones. He wears a gold-and-diamond ring on the fourth finger of his left hand. His hair falls over his ears, the thin corkscrew curls shiny. His eyes are green, his mustache a pencil line over his lip. His nose looks...
...walk outside. Katherine Jackson pulls up in a car and gets out with several packages. We follow her in. She is about 5 ft. 4 in. and is wearing a blue pantsuit and a red blouse with a tie at the neck. She walks with a slight limp (she had polio as a baby). Her hair is black and rolls to the shoulders. Her skin is smooth and creamy brown like Michael's. Jackson tells her it would be good for her to have an interview with me. She says, "Oh, Joe, I don't want...