Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joined Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, a group that opposes the death penalty. "It is the way I honor Catherine," she says. "To murder someone in her name and to say we are doing it for her is horrible." Gayle sees herself as a spark for smaller mercies. "People think, If she can do that, maybe I can forgive my sister for what she did to me or my brother-in-law or mother--or whomever they've been holding a grudge against all these years...
...full-fledged film division cranking out a dozen or more movies a year. "We've been fairly vocal in saying that there's only a certain extent to which we can change our stripes and become pure executives," Parkes says. "We're happier focusing on a smaller number of pictures."(Spielberg declines to comment...
...analog camcorder some friends lent us last year--roughly the size and weight of a parking meter--isn't exactly state of the art. Video cameras began to shrink more than a decade ago with the introduction of 8-mm tape in cigarette pack-size cassettes that were far smaller than the bulky VHS tapes that fit in our borrowed recorder. Quality improved in 1989 with the introduction of Hi8 film, and it caught on with some 10 million consumers, making 8 mm and Hi8 the most popular format. (The closest competition is VHS-C, a compact cassette that fits...
...Last week Mexico City, upon which dogs drop around 120,000 tons of feces a year, appealed to owners to clean up after their dogs because it was causing major health problems. Plus, dogs are the only animals I know of that are sexually interested in breeds 500 times smaller than them. They're worse than frat boys...
...years ago, a colleague and I asked Bill Clinton if he'd ever been in a fistfight. Yes, the President said, he'd been in a scrap in the eighth grade, when he was being hassled by a neighborhood bully who was smaller than Clinton but had been after him for some time. Clinton felt sorry for the boy--he had problems at home. Clinton didn't want to hit him and tried to ignore him. But one day, after being bothered by the boy for half an hour, Clinton hauled off and smacked...