Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese civilians, and yet he lives in a private apartment with rent, food and utilities paid for while his girl friend cooks dinner! Poor people who have done nothing illegal all their lives live worse than that, and what of the people in jails who were convicted of lesser crimes...
...linked to the auto industry, its triumphs could pass along many benefits. Among the principal recipients will be Pittsburgh's steelmen, Akron's rubber firms and U.S. producers of copper, glass and leather. The investment tax credit will probably benefit the construction-steel and excavation-equipment industries to a lesser degree than the computer and machine-tool industries. Reason: with industrial production running at a sluggish 73% of capacity as a result of the recession, corporate planners will be much more likely to use the tax credit to modernize existing plants than to build new ones. As businessmen start...
...nation's registered Democrats and 6% of Democratic county chairmen prefer him over the other potential Democratic candidates. His camp abounds with "Kennedy men": Advisers Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Kennedy's Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz, Writers Richard Goodwin and Adam Walinsky, plus other lesser-known figures. President Kennedy's Press Secretary Pierre Salinger will be coming aboard early next year. McGovern himself was John Kennedy's Food for Peace director. Moreover, McGovern's posi-tion on the Democratic left is about where Ted Kennedy would be expected...
...reason for this lack of under-standing is that despite its wide acceptance in eastern Asia, acupuncture has been generally dismissed in the West as superstitious folklore. Only since World War II has it become the subject of serious scientific inquiry in the Soviet Union, to a lesser extent in France, Germany and Britain. In the U.S., the treatment is available principally in San Francisco's Chinatown. Even in its homeland, acupuncture was being phased out by officials before the Communist takeover in 1949. Then Mao Tse-tung realized that it would be impossible to train China...
...definition of the offense. Last April, they organized an all-day "rape workshop" in Manhattan, where they discussed such topics as "rape in marriage" and "the psychology of rapist and victim." (Child care was provided.) For women who cannot bring themselves to feel raped, there is a spectrum of lesser outrages to dwell upon, like being whistled at or ogled. Manhattan's Village Voice recently printed an essay "On Goosing" by Liberationist Susan Brownmiller, who furiously denounced all such male attentions as heinous insults, reminiscing painfully about her most memorable gooses from age 13 on and calling them...