Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were no limit. Yet the more it has increased taxes, the more people and businesses it has driven from the city, thus further eroding the tax base. In addition to an 8% city sales tax, a city income tax is levied on residents and - to a lesser extent - on commuters. A New York family of four earning $15,000 a year pays a city tax of $179 (as well as a state in come...
...blacklist primarily affected the Business School, and to a lesser degree, the Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, spokesmen from the three schools said yesterday...
...this gal was going to go out and commit the completely crazy act that she did," he insisted later. "Can you imagine it? A John Birch officer selling guns to radical kooks." Moore also picked up some cartridges, although she seemed concerned when he had only target loads of lesser charge available. "Will they do the job?" she asked. "Oh yes, they'll work," he replied, convinced that she was thinking about short-range defensive uses...
...person and attended church. I have a guardian angel theory, and I had felt during the program, and still genuinely feel, that the guardian angel had a purpose for me in being there. Bert (her FBI contact) is a devout Roman Catholic, as is Catherine Hearst and to a lesser extent Randy Hearst. I was a devout Episcopalian, but there really isn't that much difference. When Bert asked me about my participation in the program, I explained that it was partly my religious feelings and he accepted it as a valid point...
...former accountant and veteran of five marriages, Davis ran the company like a Renaissance monarch: he insisted on deciding personally minute details like the design of an invitation card to a company party, and became known as "the executioner" for his summary firings of scores of lesser executives. The latest and most notable casualty occurred in September, when Sir John got rid of another much harried heavyweight: 236-lb. Graham Dowson, 52, who had held the title of chief executive. Dowson had incurred Davis' wrath by rejecting the woman that Sir John had promoted as Dowson's fourth...