Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shut up!" yelled Ronald Reagan, a shout shot round the world. The short, clear Reagan speech that followed outlining the Administration's policy on China and Taiwan was among the best he has ever given. So much for Peter's lesser principles...
...wraps up a five-game Harvard streak of games agents teams of lesser quality. So, when the Eagles travel at the Business School field this afternoon. Harvard will have its first challenge in awhile...
...write strictly for that. You'd set up one baddie, just for the saver." A lot of comedians have done this, but none has raised the art to such rococo refinements as Carson, who can now paralyze an audience with one-liners that would get lesser comics boiled...
Determinate sentencing ends the ambiguity. The plan considered wisest is the one adopted by Minnesota in 1980. Basically, that state's "grid" formula quantifies a convict's criminal past and his current offense, and assigns the appropriate sentence. A judge who occasionally wants to impose any lesser or greater penalty must justify his divergence in writing. Most appealing is the cool simplicity embodied in the guidelines, which help to restore an aura of fairness and strictness to criminal justice. Deterring crime is a murky business, but it can work well only if the sanctions threatened are credible, consistently applied...
...composition is as simple as the relationships. Soyer, on the other hand, chose a much more difficult situation to compose. He selected ten realist artists for his Homage, including Edward Hopper, Jack Levine, Leonard Baskin, Reginald Marsh and himself. Also portrayed was Soyer's twin brother Moses, a lesser-known painter who died in 1974. Most of these men had little or no connection with the long-dead artist being honored. As a result, the people in the picture are even more dissociated than they usually are in Soyer's group paintings. In this case, the artist produced...