Word: slights
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...hardly felt anything, although several people in high-rise buildings reported very slight tremors,†she wrote in an e-mail from Malaysia...
...Cakes made with substitutes didn't rise quite as high as cakes made with sugar, but the taste was good, and the substitutes whipped up into frosting just fine. (There was no discernible difference between the Equal and Splenda products.) Chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies were less brown and slightly more crumbly when baked with either substitute than when sugar was used. The taste was authentic, but the Equal and Splenda cookies left a very slight diet-soda-like aftertaste. It's not necessarily unpleasant, but a little startling coming from a cookie...
...countries where Baldor is doing so well. Weinig Gruppe, a midsize machinery maker near the city of Würzburg, Germany, has resorted to discounts to protect its global market share. Sales growth is stalling; profit margins are shriveling. Even with incentives, says CEO Rainer Hundsdorfer, "we've seen a slight decrease in business. Prices have to give...
...scientists had 11 volunteers play a simple video game that required them to reach for objects on the screen with a mouse-controlled cursor. What the volunteers didn't realize was that the game sometimes introduced a slight bias to the cursor's motion, forcing them to adjust their movements. Half the group slept between sessions and the other half did not. Among the sleepers, the part of the brain that was learning to compensate for the bias while awake turned out to have the largest slow waves during sleep. "The bigger the slow waves were in that part...
Reports abounded from the start that Martinez was jealous of Schilling and that, when he was relegated to being the No. 2 starter in the playoffs, he was cordial and he pitched well, but he never forgot the perceived slight from his manager, Terry Francona, who appeared to have been brought to Boston because of his relationship with Schilling...