Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...verdict. Arriving on the 1st floor, he noticed the pile of mysterious envelopes and watched as an innocent custodian moved to dispose of them. Boldly intervening, George snatched the envelopes back from the brink of oblivion and confirmed that they were, in fact, the much awaited housing results. A lesser man would have simply removed his own envelope. George is not a lesser man. He removed all those belonging to 5th floor residents and delivered them, door-to-door. We at Dartboard applaud George and suggest to the Housing Office that he be financially compensated for his efforts...
...corporate types responsible for the Levi's layoffs will be condemned to an eternity of walking the earth in blue jeans that are three sizes too small and have permanently dysfunctional zippers. Lesser offenders will be sentenced to wear bell-bottoms, acid-washed cut-offs and other stylistic abominations. The 1,000 workers who lost their jobs will genetically alter the cottonwood tree so that it bears unlimited blossoms of ready-to-sew denim. Having no raw material costs of significance, they will seize the machinery of production and produce quality blue jeans for the world...
...national discussion of abortion. The murderers of doctors who perform abortions hardly advance their cause by committing sins in the name of sainthood; their sick attempt to thwart abortion only serves to harden the resolve of pro-choice activists and blacken the image of pro-life workers. To a lesser degree, the esteem of ultra-feminist groups is lowered when abortion is touted as a privilege rather than a last and most desperate resort...
...course, heed the lesser known advice of never leaving your e-mail account open in a public place...
...other nations, it is because the U.S. boasts a higher standard. But he is forthrightly ambivalent on such well-intentioned initiatives as affirmative action. In principle he is against programs that discriminate in the name of ending discrimination. Yet he backs a limited use of the policy as the lesser of two evils...