Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the FBI has not found evidence to support an espionage indictment against Lee, Justice officials are considering charging him under a lesser statute that makes it a federal felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to handle national defense information with "gross negligence...
While the board will consider a number of lesser sanctions at its meeting this morning, the possibility of revoking the fraternity's housing permit is not without precedent...
Though the FBI has not found evidence to support an espionage indictment against Lee, Justice officials are considering charging him under a lesser statute that makes it a federal felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to handle national defense information with "gross negligence." Richardson and FBI officials are said to be eager to see Lee indicted, not only to sanction him for downloading the legacy codes but also to pressure him to talk about why he did so and with whom, if anyone, he shared the data...
...Sylvie and Bruno, one of the lesser-known works by the author of Alice in Wonderland, Bruno tells Sylvie that there are 'around one thousand and two pigs" lying in the field. Sylvie responds that if he is not sure of the total number he should say "around one thousand" and ignore the extra two, to which Bruno replies very gravely, that, on the contrary, it is of the two pigs that he is sure because they are right in front of him, while of the other thousand he has no certainty...
Whatever the strength of the government?s case, the company doesn?t appear ready to concede. "They?ve been given a chance to plead guilty to lesser charges over the last few weeks," says Novak, who first reported impending charges and the plea bargaining on TIME.com on October 11. "If the indictment goes ahead it would suggest McDonnell Douglas is taking a tough line," she says. But so is the government. "And for companies such as Loral and Hughes, which are still under investigation over exports to China, a McDonnell Douglas indictment could be cause for concern." If it does...