Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossibly difficult lead role of Rachel, but Roulleau is confident she'll pull it off. Julie, he says makes Rachel "nervous, self-deprecating and fragile, yet exceedingly tender and capable of terrific humor." But there are some potential obstacles. Roulleau notes that "budget is always a concern for the smaller shows in the season; but our team of designers is scrappy and resourceful and some very interesting things are happening on that end." Plus, the second weekend of the show coincides with the Harvard-Yale game...
...democracy. "Some observers had expected a swing back to the two large national parties, but this result was a resounding endorsement of coalition politics," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "With a 15- or 20-seat majority, Vajpayee?s government can once again be held to ransom by smaller parties with narrow agendas." The outlook is considerably worse, of course, for the other national party, Sonia Gandhi?s Congress, which looks to have won only 113 seats ? its worst result since India's independence...
...Harvard guards quit or resign, University officials say they will be replaced with guards from SSI or another contracting agency. So the proprietary force can only get smaller...
However, further smaller-scale studies--published in journals such as Pediatrics and Public Health--have documented a relationship between obesity and poverty among specific and varied segments of the homeless population. These studies have found a prevalence of imbalanced, fast food-dependent diets among homeless children and higher fat intake and prevalence of obesity--along with significant nutritional deficiency in iron, magnesium, zinc, folic acid, and calcium--among a sample of single homeless mothers. In general, homeless study participants had high-fat diets and high serum cholesterol levels, making them more likely to be obese...
...nuclear "umbrella" edging closer to approval by the Clinton administration. For TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, it?s a dubious triumph of lowered expectations. "It?s not Reagan?s ?Star Wars,' which was space-based," he says. "This is the so-called ?thin shield,? which consists of a smaller amount of interceptors [100] from a single site, rather than a full umbrella. Technically, it?s easier to build, but it also wouldn?t defend against a full-scale assault...