Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could visit to get away from ugly realities, refresh our sense of grace and possibility, and enjoy the catharsis of a well-defined universe, presided over by umpires who distinguish fair from foul. This year, however, as the regenerative cycle of baseball's spring comes round again, there is less of a sense of a new beginning: not only has one of the game's most upstanding onetime icons, Steve Garvey, been revealed as a three-timing playboy, but its finest hitter, Wade Boggs, has been hung with the "A" of adultery...
...wrong--I'm not saying that I am any less guilty than the next person of getting really sententious about stupidity. And Harvard, thankfully, is the ideal setting to let your mind and vocal cords wander into the postmodern recesses of the human condition, before you get out of here and have to deal with things like does the toaster work and paying the insurance bill and taking the car to the Jiffy Lube...
Nikandrov also said that control of curriculum should be less centralized. "At this point 70 percent of the curriculum comes from Moscow," he added. He stated a modest goal of giving local councils 40 percent control...
...anything, there is less protection for workers in private jobs because the Constitution's privacy guarantees generally restrict only actions by government officials...
...been 15 Triple Crown winners since 1887. Most baseball fans know that Boston's Carl Yastremski won the last Triple Crown in 1967, when he led the league in hitting (.326), home runs (44) and RBI (121). But in 1909, this Hall of Famer won the crown despite hitting less than 10 homers. Name...