Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scholarship and financial aid program. Bok stated: "We do not share a single, animating philosophy of education that gives order to our curriculum and coherence to our deliberations on curriculum matters." Given these greater tasks yet to be faced, the recalcitrance of the Faculty on issues of lesser importance is truly frightening...
...power in such quantity is an ever-present temptation. The line between constitutional and unconstitutional acts became blurred. Congressional power to declare war atrophied; in effect the President did it on his own-in Korea, in Viet Nam and to a lesser degree in a host of other places, like Lebanon and the Dominican Republic, where the President committed American forces momentarily. The process has a cumulative effect. Once the President has made a certain commitment of troops, he may feel compelled to send still more to protect his original investment. Viet Nam is the tragic outcome of a process...
...like this to focus attention on one of the nation's most scandalous problems: on-the-job accidents. Last year they caused 12,200 deaths. In addition, of the nation's 79 million workers last year, 2,200,000 were disabled and another 5,300,000 suffered lesser injuries or illnesses. Roofers fell off buildings, sheet-metal workers sliced off fingers, welders inhaled toxic fumes, and there were electrocutions, burnings, radiation poisonings and inhalation of cancer-inducing asbestos particles and chemical fumes...
Only then can the people of Indochina begin to be relieved of the nightmare we have helped inflict upon them. And only then can the people of America emerge from their own far lesser nightmare
...other short-order items served up at F.W. Woolworth lunch counters. Their managers had violated the rules by raising prices without obtaining advance approval, and as a result had to lower the tab for a hamburger in midtown Manhattan, for example, from 70? to 65?. Four other large but lesser-known merchandisers were also ordered to roll back prices...