Word: minor
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bleeds-it-leads TV-news editors. Suffering innocents can also be found in literature, extending from Medea to Oliver Twist. Set in the Midwest during the '30s and '40s, this memoir of how Rhodes and his brother survived mistreatment by a hateful stepmother should become a minor classic...
...suspicion of the Pentagon is minor compared with the growing anger at allies that are thought to be playing Uncle Sam for a sucker; many are far more dependent than the U.S. on oil from the gulf, yet they are contributing much less than they could to the anti-Iraqi cause. "My constituents are hopping mad," reports Illinois Democratic Senator Paul Simon. At town meetings back home, he says, "the most often asked question was why we are doing this alone." House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin warns that "if President Bush were to ask for a declaration...
Street Beat workers travel around in a minivan and a 31-ft.-long recreational vehicle, a wheeled medical-office-cum-rest-area equipped with an examination room, bathroom, shower and kitchen. The unit handles everything from minor scrapes and pregnancy screening to gunshot wounds. Forty-five percent of those tested for the AIDS virus are positive. "These kids operate outside the law and the health-care and social systems to such a degree that when they get on this van, they have no ID, no address, no nothing," says Ellen Flynn, 44, Street Beat's nurse practitioner...
...midsize machines called 3Bs, flopped largely because, at up to $100,000, they were overpriced. The company later formed joint ventures with Convergent Technologies and Italy's Olivetti to make personal computers under the AT&T brand. It also formed a partnership with Sun and made a number of minor acquisitions, including Paradyne, a modem maker, and Istel, which customizes computer systems. But AT&T never managed to capture more than 3% of the market, and losses have mounted to as much as $3 billion. Rumors began to swirl about a possible merger as a quick fix. Among the known...
...Peter Zilonis, wearing a red windbreaker and Budweiser hat leaps into action to break up the fight. He separates the men until a uniformed security officer and black-shirted bouncers come along to eject the pair. Zilonis, a former minor league baseball player and a North Cambridge resident, managed the Bow during the mid-eighties...