Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relaxed around her that at one of the marathon health-care task force meetings recently, he rubbed her aching neck. The neck notwithstanding, the Vice President says Tipper is "having a blast" in her job as mental-health adviser to the President's health-care task force, a slight exaggeration of the pleasure of spending late nights poring over options for psychiatric outplacement. But it's no exaggeration of her impact: she is the voice for mental health within the Administration. Says her press secretary Sally Aman: "She is at the table at every turn to remind the group that...
...trip back into Manhattan went almost as well. But five stops before ending his adventure, a slight incline sent the train speeding downhill, exceeding a 20-m.p.h. speed limit. Before Keno could slow train, he went through a speeding signal and tripped an emergency brake. The train hissed to a dead stop. All he had to do was get out of the train, get onto the tracks and reset the brake. But Keno was afraid of the dark subway tunnels, the rats and exposed high-voltage lines. For a full 30 minutes he sat panicked as the conductor and Transit...
...President, the press secretary reports blandly, has suffered "a slight circulatory problem of the head." That's spin doctor -- better yet, parody spin doctor -- for a stroke that has left the Commander in Chief an aspiring kumquat...
...said they had learned to disguise the hundreds of tiny ways they attempt to accommodate the demands of home and office. "I sometimes lie about where I am when my babysitter is off," says one M.B.A. A Boston attorney admits, "My son has been sent to school with a slight temperature because there was no other solution . . . I have gone to work sick to save sick days for when my son is sick...
Early in the fourth period, Harvard found itself holding a slight edge, 11-10. The Crimson had taken an 8-5 lead into halftime, and built that lead up to 10-6 in the third but saw Vermont battle back...