Word: lesser
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This analysis has serious shortcomings. Wilson resists attempts to examine the psychological causes of crime, relegating alienation and frustration to lesser, indirect roles. Also ignored are the presence of sub-cultures in which certain kinds of criminal behavior are more socially acceptable than in other communities. Housebreaking, a serious crime to the affluent, is nothing more than a weekend diversion for many blue-collar youths...
...Germany and Japan-to adopt more expansive policies, such as tax cuts and increased government spending. A failure to get the major economies moving again, the experts indicated, could dangerously increase social and political tensions, especially in other economically bedeviled nations, such as Britain, Italy and, to a lesser degree, France. Moreover, almost all economists agree that a slump in Europe would be bad news for the U.S. Says Lawrence Klein, President-elect Carter's chief economic adviser: "What really scares me is signs of a worldwide slowdown at a time when the economies of the West have become...
Servants of the czars used roe of lesser quality to polish up the royal shoe leather, while their masters downed the finer grades with vodka. Today Russian caviar commands princely prices in leading restaurants (up to $20 an ounce) and graces gourmet tables the world over-though rarely in the Soviet Union. Because of Moscow's need for hard currency, most of the 96 tons of gray-black sturgeons' eggs it produces annually are exported, bringing $5.9 million annually to the Kremlin's coffers but leaving little chance for the ordinary Russian to enjoy his national delicacy...
Iraq and Libya, the main representatives of the rejectionists among the Arab countries, have been considerably neutralization by the latest developments. To a somewhat lesser extent this is also true of Syria and Russia. The neutralization presents an excellent opportunity for a dialogue with the moderates in the Arab world--a confrontation which would neutralize the radicals even further...
...some lower elective levels, Republicans have lesser prospects. There is no chance that they can overcome the huge Democratic majority in the House of Representatives in 1978. In the Senate, elementary arithmetic will work against the G.O.P.: two years from now, more Republican seats (17) than Democratic (16) will be at hazard. But Republicans will have a chance that year to make dramatic gains in Governors' chairs. Only seven G.O.P. incumbents will be up for reelection, but fully 22 incumbent Democratic Governors must place their performance records on the line by '78. Possible G.O.P. gains include Maryland, where...