Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most plans take social security into account. Before 1986, the Harvard pension was calculated and then 80 percent of an employee's social security was deducted. Now we take a lesser cut of social security," said Joan Bruce, who is in charge of employee benefits. Bruce adds that Harvard's social security plan is viewed by other employers in the Boston area as "generous...
...part of the money to help support his impoverished family and invested much of the rest in the adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign of the Superman, which featured an evil scientist with a bald head. Superman as villain? The thought is enough to make posterity shudder. But this was not the stuff of greatness. It was only during a sleepless summer night in 1934, after Siegel...
...humbling opponents with lesser talent, Edge always displayed an appropriate mixture of humor and grace. She lent a singular air of sportsmanship to her matches...
Dating is often a source of anxiety, particularly to women attracted to men of lesser means. "I've had to make certain choices in seeing men who don't have as much money as I do," says one Atlanta heiress. "For example, driving on vacation instead of flying. But some wealthy women measure how many rungs of the ladder a man has climbed." Others are paralyzed by fear of being used by potential lovers or marriage partners. Declares Wilkin: "You can get paranoid and stay home and watch TV and eat bonbons...
...expected, the chorus of lesser G.O.P. candidates began making their exits. Alexander Haig (0% in Iowa, last place) quit the race last Friday with a parting shot at Bush -- and, indirectly, at the Reagan inner circle that had ousted him as Secretary of State. "From my point of view," said Haig, "Bob Dole is head and shoulders above George Bush as a potential President." Pete du Pont (7%, fifth place) will soon be heading back to Delaware's chateau country. Jack Kemp (11%, fourth place) had counted on outflanking Bush and Dole on the right as the true-blue conservative...