Word: lesser
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Pompidou brought with him a different strategy. It reflected his suspicion (shared, to a lesser degree, in London and Bonn) that Washington's real purpose is considerably less cosmic: to use the threat of a unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces in Europe, and of continued delays in the already overdue reform of the monetary system, to bludgeon the Europeans into making concessions on trade and balance of payments matters. Nixon has stressed that he has no intention of pulling out troops; but he does contend that the Common Market should reduce its tariffs and other barriers to U.S. products...
Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee has promised to expose all the secrets of the scandal, but while the various accusations and defenses reverberated through the top levels of Washington last week, the Ervin committee lumbered along in pursuit of lesser...
...John Ehrlichman or H.R. Haldeman would probably do it, given their stature and known closeness to the President. The indictment and conviction of these men, even if they did not implicate the President, might make his survival in office difficult. On the other hand, even highly damaging testimony from lesser witnesses, including John Dean, would almost certainly be insufficient to dislodge...
Beef Farmer Randolph Huffman, 50, reflects the opinion of some Americans who voted for Nixon in 1968 and 1972 but never fully trusted him. "I don't really like Nixon, but both times I figured he was the lesser of two evils," says Huffman. "This type of Watergate thing goes on all the time. These boys were just unfortunate to get caught. But Watergate has caused us to lose whatever confidence we had left in our Government, in the System...
...been unable to arrange a meeting between Rogers and President-elect Héctor Cámpora. Rogers apparently lacks the rank to attend some of the diplomatic functions for Cámpora's inauguration this Friday; he has been shunted off to a Saturday luncheon served for lesser lights...