Word: slights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French have been unhappy with American foreign policy for the last 15 years, and the present estrangement from U.S. government is just a slight intensification of that trend, Vernon says. In terms of the election, the French prefer any change to Reagan, but at the same time, no attempt has been made to distinguish between the Democratic alternatives. The Italians, like the French, have become more embittered toward the United States under Reagan, particularly in the wake of the recent Euromissile deployment...
...almost four times the 1982 total. Ford and Chrysler will also report handsome earnings. When all the tallying is done, Detroit's Big Three will show profits of about $6.4 billion for last year, vs. losses of $4 billion in 1980 and $1.2 billion in 1981, and a slight profit of $475 million in 1982. Only American Motors lost money in 1983, about $144 million...
...turned out, most of the reporters did not even bother to write down Mondale's remarks. Yet, as they reminded themselves, at least they had been there, just in case. That scene is typical of the life of presidential-campaign reporters, who are known, with only slight gender inaccuracy, as the boys...
Which is the very reason the 1983 Pot titlists have emerged as the slight favorite to repeat as Beanpot champions. The Cardiac Kids have taken advantage of every opportunity while winning eight of nine in overtime this year and snagging 11 one-goal wins. The most surprising thing of it all is that B.C. Coach Len Cegtarald entered the hospital this year with back pains and not a company...
...beginning of the end for the protest came in December during a chance meeting between Niels Christiansen, Nestlé's director of research, and Douglas Johnson, head of the principal boycott group, on a Philadelphia-New York train. They concluded that their differences were slight. In the final agreement, Nestlé promised to promote breast feeding as superior to formula and to warn of the hazards of misuse on graphic labels that can be understood by people who cannot read...