Word: lesser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shifted to a two-track strategy: it continues to advocate a Geneva conference, but now accepts Sadat's view that any initiative that might produce results is worth supporting. In the words of one high Administration official, Geneva is no longer a "sacred, juridical" goal; there could be lesser conferences, which might then be ratified in Geneva...
...system of education in which all students also work-a concept drawn from the writings of Marx and Marti (a Cuban revolutionary hero of the 19th century war for independence). Beginning in 1963, all schools were incorporated into the national scheme to improve agricultural, and to a lesser extent, industrial, production...
...that assessment, there is no consensus over any proposed reform. University of Colorado Law Professor Albert Alschuler argues that determinate sentencing may only force more plea bargaining; with judges and parole boards no longer empowered to mete out mercy, defendants will be under greater pressure to plead guilty to lesser offenses. Concludes Alschuler: "The big winners will be the prosecutors." Chicago's Morris is worried that state legislatures, with their susceptibility to demagoguery on a sensitive issue like crime, "can't be trusted" to set humane sentences...
...poll Megan Lesser '78, Leverett House CHUL representative, conducted this weekend shows that 145 of the 270 Leverett residents who responded to the poll favor returning the surplus funds to students...
...Lesser said yesterday because of the poll she would probably not vote for the resolutions. She added "I'd rather have the Corporation increase the accountability of Food Services, which I think would significantly reduce the cost of board, than throw the cost of reinstituting hot breakfasts on to students...