Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that life is nothing of the sort. What the Alar alarm and the fruit furor do show is that certain risks -- those that are up close, personal and capable of capturing the public imagination -- make regulatory decisions politically easy. But while all the fuss was being made over the slight possibility that some fresh fruit had been poisoned, hundreds of other perils -- less interesting, less photogenic, more complex and difficult to address -- were overlooked. Regulation that swoops down on the scare of the week keeps attention diverted from the problems individuals can do less about, like acid rain...
...second problem with the report is its slight of measures which would assist women faculty--including measures like childcare and expanded leave policies. The committee was criticized from the beginning for lumping women and minorities together, and committee members last week acknowleged the deficiency in their treatment of some women's issues...
Collins adds that until recently, she noted a slight decline in the number of women entering professions and politics...
Japan, once the world's enemy, now its envy. A ruler once a god, in fact a slight, shy man fond of jellyfish but devoted to imperial duty. The interment of Emperor Showa, called Hirohito in his lifetime, bringing together admirers of Japan's modern ascent with the rites of a hallowed but controversial past. The burial too of an era that will lay to rest a history of barbaric militarism and shattering defeat, freeing Japan to move into a new age of unapologetic economic supremacy. All in all, it was as haunting and impressive a funeral as the century...
Vermont, on the other hand, could find itself at a slight disadvantage--several of its key players are still out with injuries. Absent from the lineup for the second straight weekend will be Duke Stump, Bill Butler and John LeClair...