Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passenger, it is bad enough having to worry about how an airplane--an object clearly heavier than air even without the usual stock of complementary drinks--can possibly stay aloft longer than a football (which is an object lighter than an airplane, though considerably less comfortable for long journeys). But now there is the additional problem of an enemy not particularly deterred by the prospect of his demise...
...Every day heaps new embarrassments upon the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and his presidential campaign is in trouble. Gary Hart may have fudged his birth date and shortened his name. But though Biden has yet to be caught with his pants down, his shortcomings are now no less exposed than those of his former Senate colleague...
Bork is no less clever and no less twisted when it comes to civil rights. He explains away his opposition to the Public Accommodations Bill, a forerunner of the Civil Rights Acts, as an "intellectual mistake" commited when he was under the sway of hard-core libertarianism. While Bork has corrected this flaw in his thinking, he has relaced it with a dogmatic faith in "the jurisprudence of Original Intent." This theory would bind America to the specific 18th Century values (allegedly) held by specific 18th Century gentleman. Lost in Bork's theoretical shuffle would be the broad guarantees...
...BOSTON--Less than a third of Boston's 207,000 registered voters are expected to turn out in today's non-partisan mayoral primary which is likely to produce a general election showdown between Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and City Councilor Joseph Tierney in November...
...implausibilities in Beloved may matter less than the fact that Sethe believes them. Uneducated, her heritage and culture reduced to a few shreds of memory, she sees no distinction between the supernatural and the equally surreal facts of her own life. Morrison's heroine is hard to understand, and to forget...