Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to create events so that members from both sides of the river meet each other and be less skeptical about each other," Wolcowitz said. "We wanted to bring the athletic and faculty communities together and create less suspicions...
Abortion rights groups in the past would not have considered settling for anything less than a victory in this case. Many clinics would be forced to close or raise their prices under the restrictions, and the first victims of these changes would be poor and rural women...
COURTS have also been predictably unreliable in pay equity cases. In California, a federal judge recently dismissed a California State Employees' Association's claim that jobs held mostly by women paid less than comparable jobs held by men. That case involved 60,000 workers. A similar case was dismissed in Michigan...
...eyes are a little less sore these days, now that the Globe has decided to can the computerized mug shots of its columnists. Is it me, or did Dan Shaughnessy look like he belonged in the Disney movie, Tron? And Mike Madden looked like Mike Dukakis' younger brother. That's scary...
...winners are those who can find housing at the cheaper price. The losers are less noticeable. Suppliers of housing lose because they get less for their apartments, and thus have little incentive to provide more housing. (This means that the supply of housing is lower than it would have been without rent control.) As a result, there is another, more important group of losers--the consumers who cannot find housing at all because of insufficient supply...