Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...less about getting a conservative in and more about changing the Council from the progressive agenda in the past," he says...
...Less-than-civil debates have infused the social sciences in recent years, with charges that professors are using the classroom to advance a political agenda...
...although Sachs says liberal groups and their members tend to be less interested in council politics, he says that Driskell and Burton may have benefited by a latent desire among them to see one of their own in power...
...regrouped at the village of Alkhan-Khala, planning to head south into the mountains. Russian forces have reportedly surrounded the village, but haven't tried to advance on the rebel positions there. Capturing Grozny, of course, is primarily of symbolic importance, because the object of a counterinsurgency war is less to capture territory than it is to isolate and destroy guerrilla forces. The rebels have long maintained that their game plan was always to withdraw from Grozny after making the Russians pay a heavy price for the city - which they've certainly done. "This is less a retreat than...
...less serious but still somber note, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker received a two-and-a-half-month suspension and $20,000 fine Monday for his recent tirade against immigrants and minorities. And that's just in the last couple of days. Last month 23-year-old Miami Dolphins running back Cecil Collins was arrested for breaking and entering, while Charlotte Hornets guard Bobby Phills killed himself drag-racing Porsches with a teammate...