Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually has to find a draft-board error either in procedure or in interpretation of the law. In many instances, that search is not difficult. Some men have been drafted at a meeting of only two out of five members of a board; yet the law requires that no fewer than three be present. A San Francisco lawyer, Joel Shawn, 33, recently persuaded a federal judge to rule for his client because a majority of the draft-board members lived outside the district, a violation of the Selective Service rule that a man should be drafted only by his neighbors...
...services has slackened. Profits are expected to fall in this year's third quarter. Housing, industrial production, new orders for factory goods and stock prices have declined. Over lunch at Pittsburgh's elite Duquesne Club, industrialists grumble about slipping demand and sales. Automakers have scheduled 7.5% fewer car assemblies for the final quarter of this year than during the same period a year ago, and Chrysler is about to lay off some of its 40,000 white-collar workers to reduce costs. A. W. ("Tom") Clausen, vice chairman of the Bank of America, predicted last week that banks...
...results not only were successful for Germany but also moved the world a long step toward a much-needed reform of the monetary system. The reform should open the way for fewer wrenching devaluations of currencies and greater flexibility in the prices at which they are bought and sold...
...Lipset's motion received 45 fewer votes than the comparable amendment which took the political sting out of the resolution on the October 15 moratorium. In all probability, not all of the change was accounted for by confusion; the groundwork laid by Edsall and Albritton had undoubtedly convinced some Faculty members to alter their stance...
Illinois, Tennessee, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas have fewer black physicians now than 25 years...