Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the greatest triumph of all occurs at the end of the novel when Susan stops immersing herself in self-pity and recognizes that her problems are no lesser or greater than the rest of the world's. Ironically, Levin seems to succeed most when she quits writing for effect and allows the characters to speak for themselves...
...addicted wretches, of course. Most cocaine users do not get hooked. Says New York Psychiatrist Richard Resnick: "Just as with alcohol, there are those who can use coke on occasion and have no problems, and there are cocaholics." Statutes cannot recognize such a distinction (although Delaware's try, with lesser penalties for addicted dealers), nor should smug cocaine apologists be permitted to bandy the distinction about as a shield. But it is necessary to an understanding of just how such a dangerous drug could become so pervasive, even routine. "The only way to cut down the demand for coke," says...
...meanest coon dog of all. He asked Carter whether he was competent to be President. (Donaldson's judgment: no.) He suggested to Reagan that his presidency was "failing" and asked if it was true that he had to be "dragged back to making realistic decisions" by aides. To lesser officials Donaldson can be, if anything, ruder: at a press conference preceding an international economic summit, when Secretary of State George Shultz was brought in by White House officials for no apparent purpose, Donaldson demanded, "Mr. Secretary, why have you come here...
...revised letter drops one rationale previously offered for grudging acceptance of deterrence: that it was a "sinful situation" that should be tolerated because the dangers of unilateral disarmament were worse. The panel decided that such reasoning tried to justify an act because it was the "lesser of two evils," an approach that Catholic teaching rejects on such matters as abortion...
...this lecture Lesser discusses different transitions in human psychological development focusing on the adolescent years. Lesser compares this stage of human development to "the Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland who asks, "I'm late, I'm late for a very important date'--moving on away from the present...