Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Famous Sports Alumnus: They've got Reggie Lewis. We've got Ted Donato, Don Sweeney and a few others. Ted, Don and Co. had great collegiate careers, but His Reggieness is a bona fide All-Star. Alumnus, slight edge...
...Lawn, an environmental engineer who works in Prince William Sound: "When I flew over the site in the Shetlands, I was astounded to see that the oil was not sticking to the beaches. It would roll up on the beach and then roll back down, leaving only a slight sheen. This oil acts very differently from ((Alaska's)) Prudhoe Bay crude...
When the President-elect announced that he and his wife had, after much discussion, finally selected Sidwell, some educators were quick to criticize the move as a conspicuous slight to the public education system Bill Clinton has so avidly championed and committed himself to improving. Defending the choice, Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos stressed that the Clintons "didn't reject public schools," but had made a personal, parental decision...
...horn was no more a stunt than all his roguish jokiness though. The music flowed from a kind of high spirit, a purposeful passion that the horn symbolized and the silliness deflected. There was nothing slight or offhand about the way he played, or how he lived. Born in South Carolina in 1917, he began to teach himself trombone and trumpet two years after his father -- a bricklayer by trade and a weekend bandleader by calling -- had passed on; before he left his teens he was playing professionally with the Frankie Fairfax band and had got himself his nickname...
...slight rise in eating disorders at Harvard may be explained by the overwhelming diet mentality of our time, Heatherton says...