Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing is, it is a constant problem for us too. It is not as though we are not aware of how hard it is to keep your work going," Vendler says. "If someone can't keep their work going when they are doing lesser service then they won't be able to do it later. There is some quality you are looking for of an ability to package your time...
...Once again the State Department and the Pentagon are at odds, and what passes for policy shows little promise of dislodging the general. At a meeting convened by Bush in early February, State argued that Noriega is a danger to U.S. security; Defense countered that Noriega is a lesser evil than any of the underlings likely to succeed him as commander in chief. "Bush was very surprised to see that there was no unity," says an official. "He ended the meeting by telling everyone he would make up his mind on his own." Shortly after that meeting, Bush signed...
Hoffman pleaded guilty and served time on lesser charges. Though dismayed by the apolitical younger generation -- "Never trust anyone under 30," he declared -- he never stopped protesting. It was Timothy Leary, the advance scout of the LSD generation, who eulogized Hoffman most deftly last week. "An American legend," Leary called him. "Right up there in the hall of fame with rebel Huck Finn, rowdy Babe Ruth and crazy Lenny Bruce...
...beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar for dollar, crank is better than coke: coke is just a little sexier, but crank goes eight times as far." It is obviously a more...
...beverage, of course, is wine, which is the subject of a convivial yet scholarly 13-part series that appears on public television this month. In lesser hands, such a project could have been a mind-numbing compendium of trivia about Brix levels and Appellations Controlees. As written and narrated by Hugh Johnson, Vintage: A History of Wine is an excursion into cultural history, enlivened by the author's pithy insights on ritual, commerce and warfare...