Word: lesser
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...freedom to tell the story exactly how I wanted to tell it and never felt the slightest pressure to make the film more marketable or viewer-friendly. Although Felicia's Journey was tied to Hollywood, it was still a very small-scale, independent feature." In a lesser director's hands, Felicia's Journey could easily have devolved into a standard Hollywood thriller, but Egoyan's thoughtful approach to the material and his sense of subtlety and restraint made it a complex and powerful work...
That argument seemed to be born out by an agreement Wednesday that will enable the jury to more exactly delineate the separate scope of each defendant's guilt; the defense and prosecution agreed to allow the jury to consider lesser charges, including criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter, when considering each officer's case. The officers have all been charged with second-degree murder. This proposal, which was greeted with relief by the officers' families and general approval from the legal community, leaves the door wide open for Carroll to take the brunt of the blame while allowing the other three...
Many believe that the companies have too much monopoly power and should offer lower costs to poorer patients as well as allot more funding and research toward drugs and vaccines for illnesses plaguing lesser-developed countries...
...ordinary when Richard Holbrooke, Washington's media-savvy U.N. ambassador, took over the presidency of the Security Council this month. They were not disappointed. Last week he devoted the council's first session in the new century to an unprecedented discussion of AIDS, normally the domain of lesser U.N. branches. And in a move guaranteed to draw maximum attention, he turned the presidency of the session over to Al Gore, an unusual platform for a U.S. Vice President. It was the first time the Security Council has discussed a health issue, and China and Russia pointedly refused to join...
...doing business is too high or you're not charging enough, and you won't be able to survive." A lot of the reasons Amazon has done so well--bigger warehouses, superior customer service, low prices--have kept it deep in red ink. It will be harder for lesser-known e-commerce companies to get away with that. "Investors," Sharma says, "will become less and less tolerant of the money losers...