Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that the idea of Korean unification is not as good as it sounds," Suh said. "It is also very far off because though slight progress has been made in recent talks, the two Koreas are still vastly different...
Truesdell added that Toomey's entrance into the race was actually a "slight deterrent" to leaving office and that Vellucci was actually looking forward to the campaign...
...struck gold in the Black Hills!" crowed Bob Kerrey after winning last week's South Dakota primary. The political payoff was slight: the Nebraska Democrat bagged only seven delegates. More important, his victory, with an impressive 40% of the vote, attracted contributions to his impoverished organization. But the money was not enough to allow Kerrey to take to other states the aggressive TV campaign he mounted in South Dakota. For three precious days, he was an unwilling pacifist in a political air war marked by sharply rising bitterness and intensity. The number of negative ads began to increase in proportion...
...generate a curved form with straight balks of pine. The mysterious dark, shiny lump of Self, 1978, is one of those forms that would be banal in fiber glass or even bronze; but it is made of laminated and coopered wood, and its variations of sanding and cutting, the slight bumps and dimples of the black-painted skin, give it a peculiar organic eloquence...
Jackson, who had spent seven years as a junior professor at Harvard before being denied tenure and accepting a position at Michigan, knew as well as anyone that Peterson's chances of promotion to a full professorship here were slight. Not because he wasn't a rising scholar in his field. Not because he couldn't teach. Not because his talent didn't match that of the luminaries in Harvard's Government Department...