Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pond, The Advocate published with some regularity, and the clubs were a center of College life. As Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, later president of Atlantic Richfield and RCA, recalls: "The Porcellian, Delphic, A.D. and Fly were still spoken of with awe by those of us who were in the lesser clubs" Adds Thomas Boylston Adams '33. "There were classes of course. Some time had to be given to them. But the object of coming to Harvard was suddenly apparent. It was to get into a Club. The Club was as pleasant a place as he would ever know. Companionship...
Charm carried the original Rocky and, to a lesser extent, Rocky II. As Rocky Balboa, Stallone created an American hero: raised in the inner-city, coached by the owner of a run-down gym, Balboa appeared hopeless in his quest for the heavyweight boxing championship. Although he ultimately failed to capture the championship. Balboa proved himself a worthy contender. And throughout all the excitement and promotion, he remained a sensitive, unassuming man, falling in love with and marrying a shy, unglamorous, though caring, woman...
...British would establish a number of bridgeheads on West Falkland before attacking the eastern island. The final aim is to limit casualties while creating an air, sea and land encirclement of the territory's capital of Port Stanley and the lesser port of Darwin...
More recently the Crimson in its eagerness to further propagate myths of minority incompetence, rushed to publish parts of the Klitgaard Report, which was incomplete, inaccurate, and degrading to minorities. The Klitgaard Report purported that Black students, who were displacing "more qualified" Jewish students, would be better off at lesser white schools...
...would not use nuclear weapons first in any future conflict have had a definite but still uncertain effect on Reagan. Put on the defensive by a debate on nuclear war that it neither expected nor welcomed, the Administration has been forced to modify the tone, and to a lesser extent the substance, of the approach to arms talks that it would probably have preferred. Several slight substantive modifications can probably be attributed to Reagan's desire to counter the negative imagery which has portrayed him as less interested in negotiations than in preparing for an "inevitable" Armageddon. Examples include...