Word: tiniest
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Clinton has nonetheless organized his White House so that all lines lead to his door. He has maintained a tight hold on all personnel decisions, discussing his choices only with his wife and the tiniest circle of old allies. His choice of the amiable Thomas ("Mack") McLarty as White House , chief of staff -- and the notable lack of a strong-armed Washington veteran elsewhere in the West Wing -- suggests that he intends to continue making most of the decisions himself. Clinton admits his tendency toward micromanagement -- "I lean toward getting into the details of it," he acknowledged last week...
Doctors can now spot defects in the tiniest of embryos...
...Duncan, escort two young maidens through the wilderness during the French and Indian War. In the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, romance blossoms between the officer and the younger woman, and between Uncas and the elder. To avoid shocking his readers with miscegenation, Cooper gave the elder just the tiniest trace of Black blood. This racist attitude so shocked our modern screenwriters that they decided to make make Natty the romantic lead instead of Uncas. So the central romance is now white-on-white, and the Mohican is nearly written out of his own story. There may be a moral...
...obtain permission from the U.S. Department of the Interior and Tennessee authorities to do so. Lewis' descendants already support the project. Once the explorer is out of the ground, Starrs could use several technological tools that can coax secrets from the dead. Modern lab tests can detect the tiniest traces of poison or gunpowder residue, DNA analysis can help make identifications and scrutiny with scanning electron microscopes can reveal other telltale marks...
There was even a sign of possible progress on what has been one of the most intractable of all Middle East issues: the Golan Heights. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir had insisted that the area was so vital to Israel's security that Jerusalem could never give the tiniest bit back to Syria. But his successor, Yitzhak Rabin, says the principle of trading land for peace applies to the area, and Israel need not "cling to every single centimeter...