Word: lesser
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...Iran is its institutionalization, the fact that it has become the almost private domain of huge, semiautonomous police agencies. Once embroiled in the torture monolith, the individual has no appeal, no recourse to the kind of legal authority provided by functioning courts. But whether to an equal or lesser degree, torture is very much a part of life in many other countries as well. Some recent instances...
...nowness" of modern music. The Concerto reflects this concern, as Kirchner writes in the modern idiom, but with warmth and not numbing austerity. On Tuesday night, the brass and percussion were especially noteworthy; the former carrying out their role as an antiphonal block, the latter as understated punctuation. Lawrence Lesser, cello, and Robert Portney, violin, fit well into the ensemble sound--both have tended toward romantic interpretations throughout the Chamber Player series, and the piece provided them a suitable outlet...
...Canfield makes him out to be similar to Henry II in his relationship to the assassination of Thomas a Becket. Canfield joins forces with certain devious elements, but only involuntarily at first and eventually in an indirect way. According to the evidence in the book, Canfield is guilty of lesser crimes than those with which he's finally charged. He's only guilty of misfeasance, not malfeasance (though he can't prove it because important witnesses have disappeared...
...specific issues. Although I was in all [but one] of the primaries, I mostly restricted my efforts to just a few states. I still have never campaigned extensively in California, Massachusetts or New York. We organized only three states in depth-Iowa, Florida and New Hampshire-and did a lesser, but effective, job in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The major issue used by my primary opponents, particularly Congressman Morris Udall, was that I was fuzzy on the issues. This constant campaign statement had an impact in some of the states, though not the majority. But we have a fairly good public...
...campaign to fragment Russia's "democratic movement for human rights" by imprisoning or exiling its members. Amalrik, 38, was the last of his generation of celebrated protester-intellectuals to succumb. At Moscow airport, Physicist Valentin Turchin, a longtime Amalrik friend, explained that although a whole new group of lesser-known dissidents had sprung up to replace the old, "Andrei's departure is a pity for us; he is able to draw much attention to our movement...