Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some of the classes are actually harder. It is difficult taking in the information in the lesser time," says Assistant Professor of Anthropology Terrence W. Deacon, who teaches a summer version of his popular Core course "Human Behavioral Biology...
...company with Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez, turned the mid-'70s into a golden age. Their habit was to rag each other and everyone else at the batting cage, a merciless system that worked for them but ruined some humbler talents. If a wittier but lesser player tried to hold his own, they would trumpet their salaries in unison. It was another way of keeping score...
...were supposed to match, but a printing error produced millions of potential winners. Worse, hundreds of people thought they had won the grand prize: a $17,000 Dodge Caravan. In response to customer complaints, the food giant offered a compromise: $250 in cash for winners of the van, lesser amounts for the other winners, and a drawing for four times the original number of prizes...
...While the heavy advances for potential best sellers have prompted some authors to fear publishers will neglect books of lesser commercial potential, the demand for new books has actually produced a greater variety at many firms. Doubleday plans to publish 18 literary novels this year by first- or second-time authors, in contrast to only two in 1986. Says literary agent Virginia Barber: "We used to get as little as $5,000 for a literary novel. Now it might sell...
...Domestic issues are every bit as crucial as other issues. The issues on the homefront--I don't see them as lesser issues," Pauley says...