Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...orchestra had extended a similar musical promise with its sparkling performance of the overture. The music-making was superb from the outset: members of the chorus blended well with each other and sang fortissimo without overwhelming Christina Harrop's slight Giannetta. Gregory Turay turned Nemorino's first tenor solo into a great vocal cadenza. Soprano Lisa Saffer's Adina soon demonstrated that her coloratura could amply meet the demands of the bel canto style...
...think we may be at a slight disadvantage because we don't have a turf field and we've been inside all week," Rollins said. "I think Cornell has been outside the past few days, because it has a field it can just plow. But our lack of time outside shouldn't make that big of a difference...
Harvard got a slight scare when B.C. won at No. 4 singles and was threatening to do the same at No. 6. Down a set, however, junior Julia Kim elevated her game, amidst cheers of her teammates, to defeat her tiring opponent 2-6, 6-0, 6-2. This, in effect, assured victory for the Crimson, but the remaining matches were all played well into dusk...
Johns Hopkins Medical School, ranked second in the U.S. behind HMS, also saw a slight decrease in 1997 applicants. Admissions officers at at the school reported between 200 to 300 fewer applicants this year...
...bond market benefitted from those fears, with yields on 30-year Treasury bonds hitting 7.06 percent, up from 6.98 percent late Wednesday. Key victims of the frenzied sell-off included heavy weights Allied Signal, 3M, Exxon, Coca-Cola and Procter &Gamble. The dollar, meanwhile, also suffered, taking a slight dive to close at 123.48 yen and 1.6898 marks...