Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next person in line had forgotten to bring a pen, and strangely enough, this caused a slight commotion. "Does anyone have a pen I can keep?" Bernstein asked above the noise...
According to the Boston Sunday Globe, sources familiar with the study say the slight upward trend in attendance over the past three years could be reversed because of cuts in budgets that had supported dropout prevention programs...
...newspapers will persist in some form for a long time. Says analyst John Morton of the consultants Lynch Jones & Ryan: "There is still no cheaper or more economic way to deliver a mass amount of news to a mass audience." But in a business accustomed to high profit, a slight slippage can result in cutbacks of coverage. Some editors predict that newspapers will become repackagers, rather than originators, of information, dropping costly foreign bureaus and investigative projects in favor of wire- service copy. Other editors argue that what makes newspapers marketably different is depth and detail. One can only hope...
When the budget options are a large tax increase on the wealthy, a slight increase and no increase at all, the slight increase--as proposed by the House Democrats--becomes a logical compromise. Long's extremism would be perfect for supporters of the Rostenkowski plan...
...result, he said, could be an slight tax increase for the average city resident...