Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child's needs against another's. The operation that Marissa may undergo, perhaps when she is six months old, is far simpler than organ transplants. After anesthetizing the infant, doctors will insert a needle into her hipbone and take out a small amount of marrow. The pain will be slight, the risks minimal, and the marrow will regenerate...
...occasional traveler the danger is slight and not worth worrying about. But the Government study suggests that radiation is causing a small but measurable increase in cancer rates among crew members and the most frequent flyers. As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration is sending airline workers an advisory on the health risks of cosmic radiation...
Author Darryl Brock starts off with an oboe passage. His hero, Sam Fowler, a San Francisco newspaperman in his early 30s, is gloomy from a bad divorce and muzzy from a slight drinking problem. He has flown to Cleveland to bury his father, who died there alone, and has decided to meander back home on an Amtrak train. Somewhere in northern Ohio, the train rolls to an unscheduled stop on a siding, and Fowler steps off into the summer heat to clear his head. When he turns, the 20th century Amtrak diesel has vanished, and a woodburning steam train -- what...
...These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words--those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace...such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value...that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly out-weighed by the social interest in order and morality...
...other decisions, such as TLO v. New Jersey and Tinker v. Des Moines School District, the Supreme Court has determined that the educational environment must be preserved, even if it means a slight abridgement of student liberties...