Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members, would direct 40% of the Social Security payroll taxes now collected from each worker and his employer into a new personal security account, similar to the 401(k) and IRA accounts already familiar to most Americans. A second option, backed by two other council members, would allow a lesser degree of individual control. But to hear the howls of protest from union leaders, the seniors lobby and many Democratic lawmakers, you might think the pro-market council members had proposed to hand the keys to the Treasury over to a group of particularly selfish and spendthrift adolescents...
...success of many club teams seems even more amazing in light of the well-supported and sometimes varsity-level programs they face from other schools. Harvard prides itself on offering a wide variety of sports, but Crimson teams often face squads whose schools have chosen to dominate lesser-known sports...
Though long-time Cantabrigians may tire of the traditional Harvard Square hangouts, they do have the option of escaping to lesser-known spots...
Last year more than ever lesser Hamlets parked themselves behind personal computers. The previous year was the first in which the total amount of dollars spent on personal computers exceeded that spent on television sets; the total amount of E-mail exceeded that of surface mail; the total volume of traffic on telephone lines exceeded that of voice traffic. Last year's average PC had more computing power than the 1988 Cray computer. A Ford Taurus had more computing power than the lunar-landing module...
...problem with such reasoning is that admitting that quality is more important that sanctity is tantamount to saying that individuals who have a lesser quality of life than us have a life which is less sacred. By this reasoning, our lives are more precious than those of the starving kids in Ethiopia who have an abysmally low quality of life and a very painful existence. If such individuals started demanding "voluntary" euthanasia, saying that their suffering was unbearable, would we be willing to accommodate them too? And what about a paraplegic who requests death? Are we going to refuse...