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...just a few fun-loving naive guys who don't even know what sexism means. A lawsuit wouldn't necessarily succeed in opening up the final clubs to women. But under Roberts v. U.S. Jaycees, it would force the clubbies to be honest and choose which is the lesser evil--admitting women or admitting how they feel about women...
...course, the government is not dragging Tony the Tiger into the nuclear age for nothing. The plan they say is the lesser of two evils. In the past, farmers have used the controversial Ethylene Dibromide (EDB) as a pesticide. But scientists have determined that EDB causes cancer, and so food growing companies have been scurrying to find replacements for the dangerous chemical. The leading chemical candidates for substitutes, namely methyl bromide and aluminum phosphide, are believed to be as harmful...
...reassuring that the government has finally reacted to concerns over EDB, but its proposed solution hardly appears to resolve the issue. The lesser of two evils just may not be good enough...
...which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim to it in the most dramatic duel in the history of the sport, winning by performing a perfect 10 in her final event, the vault-not once but twice. A lesser score would have meant defeat, or at best a tie. But while the nation held its breath, she flew off the vault and into gymnastics history...
What the San Francisco convention could do to give the Democratic ticket a rousing sendoff, it accomplished. As symbolism, the mere presence of Ferraro, and to a lesser extent Jackson, on the podium might help bring to the polls many women, as well as blacks, Hispanics and members of other minorities who have not voted before. As show biz, the convention produced such an exceptionally high level of oratory that some oldtimers were arguing which speech was the best in their memory: Jackson's stem-winder or the stirring keynote by New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Party-splitting brawls...