Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, when you are dealing with a team, a slight change in chemistry could turn a whole season around, but the more the Crimson loses, regardless of the level of its play, the more difficult it becomes to break...
...Rudenstine has made it so clear that he is interested in student life," Mackay-Smith says. "There has been a slight shift in emphasis, but this is a different time, and they are different people...
...really ended. In the latest sign of hard times, the Commerce Department last week said the U.S. gross national product dipped 0.1% in the second quarter this year, marking the third straight quarter of decline. While many economists still predict that the U.S. will show at least slight growth for the third quarter, the report indicated just how shaky the economy has become. And consumers, whose purchases account for two-thirds of the GNP, could become increasingly reluctant to spend. The government said last week that the personal income of Americans fell 0.1% in July, breaking a string of five...
...Shamir, the agreement to attend the conference required only a slight shift in emphasis: he simply said yes, Israel would sit down at the peace parley provided the Palestinian delegation was acceptable, rather than no, it would not attend if the Palestinian group was not acceptable. Beyond that, the stone-faced Prime Minister gave away little. At meetings with his right-wing supporters, Shamir emphasized that he had not agreed to sacrifice -- or even discuss -- the status of Jerusalem and that there was no requirement for Israel to halt construction of new settlements in the territories or lift the occupation...
Assad can see that he has little or no chance of forcibly taking back the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in the 1967 war. The last slight hope for Soviet support for another war was snuffed out by a personal message Assad received from Gorbachev early in July. Its proposals, almost identical with those Bush had made, strongly reinforced U.S. arguments. Soviet officials delicately avoid calling it pressure, but one explains, "Gorbachev just sent a letter expressing our feeling that cooperation with the U.S. would be constructive and important...