Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only recent year for which exact figures are available, Science A-25 had 98 students. But Lewis said the course in recent years has had as few as seven or eight enrollees. Last year, fewer than 20 students took "Chemistry," she said...
...public-interest staffers point out that the office was the only one at the Law School to provide career counseling as well as placement information. Students interested in public-interest opportunities need more than just application information as they choose to enter a field with substantially lower salaries and fewer well-known opportunities than the corporate route...
Admittedly, there is a risk in reviewing a comic strip that has run fewer than a dozen times. Usually you wait for a cartoonist to find his rhythm and his own particular voice. But Breathed has been cartooning a widely popular strip for most of this decade, so I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of time. He has shown arrogance in flushing his successful "Bloom County" to begin this "Outland" strip. One naturally expects a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist to show us his best stuff early to quiet his critics...
Meanwhile, each passing year finds fewer and fewer Poles alive who remember a day, fifty years ago, when a husband, brother or father disappeared mysteriously on a train heading east...
David Dinkins has been in politics for almost as long as Bradley, but he seems newer to many New York voters. He has garnered far fewer headlines than Giuliani, who made a name for himself with high-profile cases against Mafia chiefs and Wall Street cheats. Last week elated black voters were greeting Dinkins' victory with tears and shouts of celebration. But some had also already reined in their expectations about what any mayor, black or white, can achieve. "With the Dinkins victory, there is hope," says Utrice Leid, managing editor of the City Sun, a Brooklyn-based newspaper aimed...