Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moral appeal, however, the Kansas City plan's achievements appear modest when weighed against its enormous expense. The number of out-of-district white children enrolled at the magnet schools peaked at 1,476 last year. Standardized test scores have registered slight gains. White flight, while substantially slowed, has not been reversed: in 1985, the year before the magnet plan began, the district was 73.6% minority; this year it is 75.9% minority. If nothing else, horrible school facilities have been replaced with nice new ones, and for some that is justification enough. "I bet a lot of kids in Kansas...
Surprisingly, this sort of penurious ingenuity yields only a slight edge over the majors, who have been frantically cutting costs as well. Using a basic industry yardstick--operating expense per seat, per mile flown--analyst Engel figures that last year American, Delta and United averaged 8.76[cents] a mile; the upstarts averaged 7.64[cents...
These strategies will be especially important against the formidable opposition of Columbia and Penn. Each team will be looking for that slight edge in the closing innings...
...weather proved to be a major factor; although Harvard held a slight "home-field advantage," having played at Duxbury on several occasions this season, the Crimson was not prepared to play in such cold conditions following a spring break trip to California. Conversely, Yale, which had travelled to Scotland, adapted much more easily to the adverse climate...
...PRESIDENTIAL-CAMPAIGN BATTLEGROUND SHIFTS TO Washington, Tom Daschle seems an odd candidate for the role he is about to play as President Clinton's first line of defense on Capitol Hill. A slight and boyish-looking man of 48, he had never managed a major bill before becoming Senate Democratic leader last year. Almost incapable of eye-to-eye engagement with the television camera, he prefers to read his speeches, softly and deliberately, from behind a pair of glasses. "He looks like a choirboy," sighs veteran South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, a fire breather...