Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats agree privately with Bush's plan to make affluent ; retirees pay higher premiums for Medicare coverage. But the Dems will hesitate because any such "means testing" could turn Medicare into a "welfare-type" program that would lose support among the middle and upper classes. Chance of passage: slight...
While the weekend's victories are not surprising--Harvard has not lost to Navy since the mid-sixties and it has never lost to Franklin and Marshall--they are a slight drop from last year. In its 1989-90 season, the Crimson shut out both teams at Hemenway Gym. Two years ago however, the Crimson almost fell to the Diplomats in Philadelphia in a 5-4 nailbiter...
There were signals too of a slight softening in the stance of Baltic leaders. "If we see signs of a reduction of the Soviet military presence in the republic now," admitted Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, "the step can become a good signal for talks." Nationalist governments in the three republics have rejected Gorbachev's plans for a nationwide referendum in March on the future of the union. The Lithuanians and Estonians plan to hold their own polls on independence before then. That would help defuse Moscow's charges that the Baltic governments only represent the views of radical minorities...
...tone of these scenes is windily self-important, the intellectual content embarrassingly slight. Even worse is the inherent contradiction between deploring the folk mythification of assassins and sustaining that very process by having a singer-narrator twang knowing ditties about the killers...
...following night at Christie's was a slight improvement, because the estimates were more realistic and the works themselves somewhat better. Nevertheless, 48% of the works failed to sell. The auction had one very fine De Kooning, July, 1956, which sold for $8.8 million against the estimates of $5 million to $7 million. It might have been a $15 million painting a year ago, but at least its price offset the fact that none of the other De Koonings in the sale -- all later or inferior works -- found buyers. Philip Guston's Summer, 1954, joined the De Kooning...