Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that I had performed myself for other Presidents, and I sympathized. But in the circumstances, with this message coming when we were on the verge of achieving peace in Lebanon, I felt that I must hear the words from the President himself. I could not abandon the negotiations on lesser authority...
Student concern about Review selection is understandable: aside from the satisfaction of contributing to its publication, editors can expect a wealth of other benefits. Editors and professors generally agree that the Review provides a significant advantage in the competition for judicial clerkships, faculty appointments, and, to a lesser degree, high-paying corporate jobs...
...months later, tempers have cooled, but, as Studds begins his fifth reelection campaign, his 10th Massachusetts Congressional district remains clearly divided in its feelings about Studds as a man; and, to a lesser extent, Studds as its congressman...
...Marco Polo of Junk Food, as he is known to awestruck lesser feeders, is renowned for his courageous researches into such regional American delicacies as barbecued chicken wings and Philadelphia cheese steaks. Here he is on a less eupeptic journey. We may assume that Calvin Trillin occasionally takes on a plateful of crab cakes or refried beans, but only as fuel. As his title indicates, this time Topic A is violent death...
...praised by both Western critics and Soviet authorities. A member of the Communist Party since 1932, he publicly denounced dissident Soviet writers, including fellow Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who in turn charged Sholokhov with having plagiarized large sections of And Quiet Flows the Don from a lesser-known Cossack writer. Sholokhov's obituary was signed by Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko and other top officials...