Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offering unemployment benefits to workers during the three-month summer layoff period. Instead, the University began to offer its employees temporary jobs to tide them over the summer months. On the surface, the change might appear to be generous attempt to offer workers full summer salaries instead of the lesser compensation of unemployment benefits...
...Burns dominates the board and, to a lesser extent, the FOMC. He does so through a genuine talent for classic consensus decision making. Says one FOMC member: "Part of his dominance stems from his ability to know what is going on. I've seen him shift his position during a meeting, or shift from one meeting to another as the consensus changes." In other words, Burns takes care to move the discussion in the direction in which agreement seems to lie. The role of Burns' predecessor, William McChesney Martin, was far more passive...
...movie. Mac Arthur, starring Gregory Peck. The screening, however, may not be that relaxing. Eerily, history is repeating itself. Douglas MacArthur was abruptly recalled and sacked in 1951 for defying President Harry Truman by calling for an expansion of the Korean War to mainland China. Now another, lesser general is on the carpet for speaking out against another President's Korean policies...
AMONG THE LESSER CHARACTERS, the Duke of Milan is almost guaranteed to make a hit. Paris K.C. Barclay presides over "Bring All the Boys Back Home" in robust and jazzy style, accompanied by his spry side-kick, Thurio (Stephen Hayes), who has been poured into a snazzy green and orange jester's outfit with token military trimmings. The transformation of Shakespeare's Duke into a war-mongering politician hasn't dated since the demise of the Vietnam war. Eglamour's singing voice tends to coast out of key, and the Chinese dragon he musters to his aid is lovely...
...desirability and proper emotional upbringing of illegitimate children. While Shakespeare doesn't wrangle over issues as pragmatic as pregnancy in this play, you wonder if he didn't have more on his mind than Julia's male disguise when he put these words in her mouth: "It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,/Women to change their shape than men their minds...