Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books requisite to obtain a tenured position more revered than the "lecturer in philosophy" job he worked at intermittently for almost two decades at Columbia, Cornell, the New School and Harvard's Graduate School of Education, would surely have wallowed in the nitpicking pedantry that some of the lesser essays in Voice in the Wilderness border...
Clearly the CIA considers the junta to be the lesser of two evils. Still, it rates the Chilean enterprise a failure since it ended in military dictatorship. Several years of dangerous, costly and now nationally divisive intervention in another country's internal politics might better have been avoided. Though Soviet propaganda blames the CIA for the Chilean coup and the death of Allende, Soviet intelligence analysts do not give the CIA any credit. The Russians think the fault lay with Allende himself for not being enough of a strongman. He temporized with constitutional processes when he should have disregarded...
...cost-cutting program imposed by Chairman William T. Seawell: 8,000 of 40,000 employees have been fired. By July of this year, matters were even worse. Losses were running in the $30 million range, and Pan Am and TWA, a line with even greater first-half losses but lesser troubles overall, had appealed to the Civil Aeronautics Board for federal subsidies of around $265 million for 1974 alone. In August, a desperate Pan Am declared it needed an immediate $10.1 million-a-month subsidy just to keep going, and insisted that it be retroactive to April. The Department...
...could concur in both views but for the fact that some of these "underlings" are now serving sentences for lesser offenses than those from which the presumably more important defendants may be excused...
...last June, Burlington posted profits of $27.5 million, about 20% above the same period last year. But the success has brought little harmony in the executive suite; with in a single week this summer, two executive vice presidents, Raymond E. Kassar and George L. Staff, abruptly resigned. Some 20 lesser executives have left or been dismissed in recent weeks...