Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel a special pressure to encourage, to recognize and to legitimize the experience of a group of people the academy has tended to disregard, undervalue, to rate as lesser or inferior," says J. Lorand Matory, professor of Afro-American studies and anthropology...
Small wonder, then, that the industry zoomed from about 10 companies in 1994 to some 50 participants last year. Giants such as GE Capital, Norwest Financial and Ford's Associates First Capital came barreling in alongside lesser-known newcomers. But the overcrowded field swiftly became unforgiving. For example, the market value of Mercury Finance, a sub-prime auto lender in Lake Forest, Ill., collapsed from $2.2 billion to $130 million last year after the company disclosed that it had overstated profits...
Every Olympics, of course, finds many of its highlights in the corners, where no one thinks to look for them. The upper-case Games were about Wayne Gretzky's checking into the Olympic Village like an Everyman; the lower-case ones were about lesser-known athletes' rubbing shoulders with the Great One. The marquee performer in the men's downhill, when finally it was completed, Hermann Maier, stormed out of the starting gate and, at the first major jump, turned into a cartwheeling, somersaulting blur of red and orange as he crashed through two retaining fences and ended...
...Americans have died because of Clinton's lack of virtue, except in the minds of some of the lesser-respected radio talk-show hosts. Perhaps America should follow a more enlightened path and let the executive branch work to better the lives of all Americans and let others, i.e. communal and religious leaders, provide the moral backbone that this country does indeed need. HAROLD E. LUBER...
...Justice Department officials, who had their own concerns. They were worried that Kaczynski's mental illness would be taken heavily into account by jurors considering whether to sentence him to death or to a lesser penalty. Prosecutors also fretted that Judge Burrell's decision not to let Kaczynski represent himself could be overturned on appeal. But they kept their game faces on; they arrived in court on Thursday with fresh haircuts, looking ready for trial...