Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demographic and economic figures, computers are a godsend, but they can have a narrowing effect in the humanities where they are only useful for lesser tasks," he said...
Maybe a little too hard. The new Union Station is the work of the Rouse Co., developer of the charmingly urban Harborplace in Baltimore, the charmingly urban Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, the charmingly urban South Street Seaport in New York and several lesser-known charmingly urban shopping-and- eating entities. These profitable developments are distinctly funk free, but they are not ugly. If it takes an artificial heart to save a dying downtown, as Harborplace probably saved Baltimore, why complain? The problem is programmed quaintness: Ghirardelli Square was a revelation 20 years ago, a copy or two elsewhere were...
...ever more ominous phase. As the 40th anniversary of the A-bomb explosion over Hiroshima approaches, the world has special reason to view what is happening with trepidation, at the very least. On the Asian subcontinent, in the Middle East, in southern Africa and, to a lesser degree, in South America, a number of countries have acquired or are in the process of acquiring the capacity to build atomic weapons. At the same time, the fragile international system of self-restraint that the world has built around its most deadly Pandora's box of technology, a system that has worked...
...like. We're very concerned." Indeed, a new generation of nuclear powers, and would-be powers, is maturing. Known among experts as the "phantom proliferators," these countries are contributing the most significant uncertainties about the future of nonproliferation. The phantoms are India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa and, to a lesser degree, Argentina and Brazil...
...Eastern Europe, most V-E celebrations honored the victorious Red Army while acknowledging a lesser contribution from Western forces. Czechoslovakia emulated the Soviets with a large military parade. In Poland, traffic was halted briefly in Warsaw for a memorial ceremony...