Word: lessers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Would those folks who intend to vote for the lesser of two evils have endorsed Mussolini because they didn't like Hitler? I do not feel that anybody has the right to badger people into voting against their own standards...
...recent tax regulation will be even harder on first novelists, and is certain to curtail lesser-known writers' advances against royalties. The Hollywoodizing of publishing and the boom-or-bust psychology that pervades the industry have made it more difficult to place first novels and nonfiction without mass appeal. The Thor decision can only quicken this trend. Few publishers are likely to take risks on little-known authors without at least a guarantee of a tax break on his unsold books. First printings will be smaller, and second printings may become a rarity for trade books that...
...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...