Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, the government is not dragging Tony the Tiger into the nuclear age for nothing. The plan they say is the lesser of two evils. In the past, farmers have used the controversial Ethylene Dibromide (EDB) as a pesticide. But scientists have determined that EDB causes cancer, and so food growing companies have been scurrying to find replacements for the dangerous chemical. The leading chemical candidates for substitutes, namely methyl bromide and aluminum phosphide, are believed to be as harmful...
...which Olga Korbut, for all her charm, was too limited an athlete to achieve. Retton sealed her claim to it in the most dramatic duel in the history of the sport, winning by performing a perfect 10 in her final event, the vault-not once but twice. A lesser score would have meant defeat, or at best a tie. But while the nation held its breath, she flew off the vault and into gymnastics history...
What the San Francisco convention could do to give the Democratic ticket a rousing sendoff, it accomplished. As symbolism, the mere presence of Ferraro, and to a lesser extent Jackson, on the podium might help bring to the polls many women, as well as blacks, Hispanics and members of other minorities who have not voted before. As show biz, the convention produced such an exceptionally high level of oratory that some oldtimers were arguing which speech was the best in their memory: Jackson's stem-winder or the stirring keynote by New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Party-splitting brawls...
...vote did not alter the basic center-right orientation of the Strasbourg-based European Parliament, which is a largely consultative body with some influence but few practical powers. Yet the hints of political polarization pointed toward a period of uncertainty in France and, to a lesser degree, in West Germany. In almost every major country, the election forced governments as well as opposition leaders to reconsider their strategies in the light of what appeared to be a newly volatile and irritated electorate...
...Scum might seem more engaging and colorful if he were not so familiar: another in a long line of romantics who disdain the bourgeois "scramble for outside things like money or status," a lesser descendant of that definitive rogue-genius Gulley Jimson, hero of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. For a man who claims that most of his life has been "a flight from boredom," Scum has an amazing tolerance for bull-session profundities. Scarcely a page goes by without an interpolated haiku-like verse (WE WEAR OURSELVES INSIDE OUT/ TRYING TO BRING THE OUTSIDE...