Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regional and conference championships serve as qualifying preliminaries to the NCAA's and as development meets for a school's lesser stars. But only the nation's outstanding swimmers score points at the NCAA's. It's as simple as that...
...than anyone else in the Politburo, Teng has been personally identified with the invasion. If it should be perceived as a flop in the future, opponents could conceivably use it against him, much as the Cuban missile crisis was used against Khrushchev. Some diplomats noted that last week another, lesser known Vice Premier, Li Hsien-nien, had assumed an expanded role as Peking's spokesman...
...administrators at both Harvard and their chosen university. As a result, only a few students each year have been able to wade through the protracted paperwork and actually study abroad. The majority simply give up when they discover most departments' aversion to granting credit for work at other, supposedly lesser institutions...
...much belabored and quite real self-absorption of the '70s implies, by definition, a corollary lack of interest in children. There are many forms of narcissism, of course; one of the lesser arguments of militant non-propagationists has been that children are an ego trip, begotten for the pleasure of watching one's own little clone toddle around. But today having children often seems to have been trivialized to the status of a life-style -and an unacceptable one. The obsession with being young and staying young has led to the phenomenon of almost permanently deferred adulthood...
...plot of this New York City gang movie is almost nonexistent, and what does exist is tedious. The large cast is wooden; the language is flat; the humor is childish, and the content would not engage the imagination of a lesser insect. Still, it is not so easy to consign The Warriors to the junk heap. Though The Warriors is trash, it is handsome trash. It excites the eyes even as it numbs the mind...