Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to choose the lesser of two evils. I'm going to choose what my conscience tells me to do. The right thing to do. And pray that by the next election others will accept my philosophy and see that the two political systems of today just don't have the answers--they don't have the absolutes that I think we need to rebuild this broken foundation...
...guidelines clearly reflect the antipathy towards Harvard (and to a lesser extent MIT, which is located nearer industrial than residential areas), and if adopted will mean serious changes for an institution that has been operating on a laissez-faire basis for 350 years...
...seems more a well-read humanist with a strong interest in evolutionary theory than a scientist who is well-educated in other fields. He refers in almost every essay to such non-scientists as Odysseus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Alexander Pope, and even Muhammad Ali as bridges to lesser-known scientists like Richard Goldschmidt, Baron Georges Cuvier, Paul Broca, Randolph Kirkpatrick, and Thomas Henry Huxley...
...readers and writers. Publishers offer Dickens' friend Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone, the privilege of completing Edwin Drood; he declines, but later writes a similar story of duality and the changing tales of good and evil; he calls it Miss or Mrs.? Other attempts are made by lesser authors-and next to the Master what author is not diminished? In the '20s, a silent movie is produced, and in 1935, Claude Rains stars in a film that seems to have been made in gothic twilight...
...true for Jewish students. But Prof. Klitgaard doesn't stop there. Because of this "problem" with standardized tests, affirmative action programs tend to create a student body with a wide disparity of academic capabilities. Klitgaard's solution to the "problem": perhaps if Blacks (Third World students?) attended "slightly lesser insitutions where they might compete as intellectual equals," we could eventually reach a point when "Blacks (Third World students?) would end up academically equal to whites at all but the very bottom institutions"--the "ripple effect...