Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national product in 1983 to about 3% right now. That is lower than the level of deficit spending during 1975-76, for example, when the gap was widened by a recession. Friedman says he accepts the deficit because it has restrained federal spending. "Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," he says. While Friedman admits that "mine is not the majority view," he adds, "Everybody looks at the world through his own glasses, and those glasses mean more than the facts you are looking...
...theater is also known for its live performances and its film festivals, including the annual "Festival of Animation" and the ever-popular "Attack of the Killer B's," a weekend celebration of Hollywood's lesser-known creations...
...interim report offered 56 specific recommendations to prevent more Aboriginal deaths. Among them: imprisonment for lesser crimes should be used only as a last resort; public drunkenness should be abolished as an offense; treatment centers for alcoholics should be established as soon as possible. The report also suggested a national task force be appointed to examine the effects of alcohol abuse on Aborigines, a particular source of trouble for these indigenous people...
...those "who carry the virus and cannot live in chastity ((should)) use the proposed methods." That clearly meant condoms, though Lustiger did not utter the word. Last week in L'Express, he repeated his view. The Vatican made no immediate response, but one Roman official deemed the Cardinal's lesser-of-two-evils approach "reprehensible...
...reason is largely economic. Parents and students think they will get a higher return on their $16,000-plus annual investment from a brand-name institution such as Yale, Caltech or the University of Chicago than from a lesser-known school. But these same colleges are trying to attract students from diverse ethnic, racial, geographic and economic backgrounds, making the admissions hurdle still higher for the majority of white middle-class applicants. One measure of the competitiveness: last year the University of Pennsylvania rejected 35% of those who scored an extraordinary 1,400 or more on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...