Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most mentally ill people, who suffer to a lesser degree, are just as needy of aid as those on the street. Just as bright and talented as the non-mentally ill, their contribution to society is stymied by their illness. College educated mentally ill languish in their destructive thoughts--not working, not getting out of the house, not really living...
...lesser team would have given up, resigned itself to defeat. Not Harvard. It not only kept working, it worked harder...
Until now, the earth's climate has been a remarkably stable, self- correcting machine, letting in just the right amount and type of solar energy and providing just the right balance of temperature and moisture to sustain life. Alternating cycles of cold and warmth, as well as greater and lesser concentrations of different gases, have forced some species into extinction. The same changes have helped others evolve. The irony is that just as we have begun to decipher the climatic rhythms that have gone on for hundreds of millions of years, we may have begun to change them irrevocably...
...effort to be faithful to the spirit of the novels they have adapted, and with films like Room and The Bostonians, the approach worked well. With Maurice, however, a novel that Forster wrote in 1917 but refused to publish in his lifetime, the filmmakers have latched on to some lesser material, held tight for two and a half hours, and smothered stirring emotional turmoil with good intentions...
...message to Black students says that their safety is of lesser importance than the politics of football. For many Black students at Harvard, every day involves a test of one's tolerance of racial harassment, from the Black male student who must constantly produce his bursar's card for HUPD, to the Black female student who must suffer the repeated abuses of racial slurs and sexual innuendo. The recent developments in the Currier House incident merely serve to confirm Black students' suspicions that the University would not issue serious punishments to curb such incorrigible behavior...