Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are as two-dimensional stereotypes of men and women as are to be found in any issue of Viva or Playboy. Lecherous bosses are among the lesser threats to a woman's sense of herself, and there are far greater supports for it than dishwashing husbands...
...know if this story makes a political statement about relations between the Soviet Union and the people of their client states in Eastern Europe and I'm inclined to feel that it does and doesn't. Certainly in Czechoslovakia, and in Romania to a lesser extent, resentment toward the USSR runs high, but in other countries, East Germany and Poland, for example, there is more of a desire among people, particularly students, to convey a sense of awareness to the Westerner, a feeling that, as one East Berliner put it, "We're not being taken in. We have both feet...
...Lesser Evil. Under Carey's proposal, an Emergency Financial Control Board will be set up to supervise the city finances and try to make outgo match income. The board will consist of Carey, Mayor Abraham Beame, the state and city controllers, and a fifth member appointed by the Governor. Obviously, Carey will take command. The board will stay in existence until the city's accumulated deficit is wiped out, a date that nobody can predict...
...after a default to arrange a schedule for deferred payment of all its debts. If the schedule is accepted by the state supreme court and followed in good faith, creditors' suits would be rejected. Carey's proposal to raise $2 billion or so seemed to be the lesser evil. Said Rohatyn, who played a key role in selling the package to Albany's legislators: "I told them I was bringing them essentially a rotten choice. They were being asked to choose between a default−a known, unquestionable, terrible catastrophe right now−and a complicated long...
...training and temperament put him into an almost impossible position as a writer: he was "an artist who must on no account betray his emotions." But he argues that Kipling struggled bravely and imaginatively to deliver himself whole to his reader, and that in fact his later, lesser-known stories- such parables in anguish as The Gardener and Mary Postgate-were his masterpieces...