Word: slight
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University officials are saying little publicly, but they, too, concede privately that the chances of a rapprochement are slight. "We still want that building," one staffer explains. And University spokesmen says they have not yet reached a decision on whether to take the matter to court should they lose before the rent board. They add that they have definitely not rejected the idea of a legal challenge...
University officials are saying little publicly, but they, too, concede privately that the chances of a rapprochement are slight. "We still want that building," one staffer explains. And University spokesmen says they have not yet reached a decision on whether to take the matter to court should they lose before the rent board. They add that they have definitely not rejected the idea of a legal challenge...
Walesa, 37, does not look like a hero. At 5 ft. 7 in., with a slight build, a mop of brown hair overhanging his bulbous nose, and a bushy mustache, he wears outsize clothes that look like hand-me-downs from much larger brothers. Nor is he accustomed to prominence. Walesa was working as an electrician in the Lenin Shipyard in 1970, when bloody riots broke out over food prices and prompted him to join the yard's strike committee. Just before the recurrence of rioting in 1976, he was fired for criticizing national economic policies...
...completed in 1977 by the California-based American Institutes for Research. After studying 11,500 students over two years, researchers found that children in bilingual programs did no better at learning English or anything else than non-English-speaking students thrust into regular classes-except for a slight edge in elementary math. Proponents of bilingualism, including Hufstedler, regard the report not only as inadequate but out of date. Says Rudolph Troike, director of the office of multicultural bilingual education at the University of Illinois: "The payoff of bilingual education doesn't show up until the fifth or sixth year...
...hostage problem is solved, it will have some slight chance of success. Otherwise it won't get anywhere...