Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trip. A defendant in Boston, pleased at obtaining a hung jury in his trial for the murder of his wife, refused generous offers from the prosecution to plea-bargain for a lesser charge. A second jury convicted him of voluntary manslaughter...
...Since an estimated 40% of house heat escapes through faulty flues, ill-fitting windows and porous walls, tax rebates would be offered to homeowners who insulate their residences. The amount: a 25% personal income tax credit on the first $800 outlay, or a tax saving of $200, and a lesser percentage on the next $1,400. For householders unable to raise the cash, utility companies will be required to offer installment-plan insulation programs for their customers...
Below the group of seven-and, of course, Vice President Walter Mondale, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Schlesinger and Budget Chief Bert Lance-is the "junior varsity." These are the dozen or so lesser aides who keep the White House whirring and the senior seven free to concentrate on their own functions...
...York City failed to slow the brisk sale of petunias, azaleas, tulips and hydrangeas; apartment dwellers were determined to bring touches of nature into their steel-and-concrete towers. Bird lovers crowded the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge as they sought to spot the first glossy ibis, dowitchers and lesser yellowlegs of the season. Members of the Appalachian Mountain Club went hunting for fiddlehead ferns...
Despite the sniping, the NIH group by last summer managed to turn Asilomar's directive into concrete rules. The guidelines continue the ban against the potentially most dangerous experiments. They also provide two principal lines of defense against lesser hypothetical risks. They establish four levels of physical containment; these range from standard laboratory precautions (dubbed "P-l") for experiments in the lowest-risk category-say, injecting harmless bacterial genes into E. coli-to ultrasecure laboratories ("P-4") for work with animal tumor viruses or primate cells. At present, two new P-4 facilities are almost ready...