Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three or four times a week people will come in and ask if they can smoke, and will leave after we say no," said Patrick M. Lee, the manager of the Grafton Street Pub and Grille, "but [the loss of business] is definitely the lesser of two evils...
...what is now a small but growing political minority. There are no more sweeping government solutions. More importantly, there are fewer and fewer alleged solutions that are even politically viable--hence, we will be left with a United States President rightly described by The Crimson's editorial dissent ("Lesser of Two Evils," November 4) as "ideologically bankrupt." Government cannot keep pace with the dynamic forces of even a nominally free society...
...twists of finance, these lesser customers now represent the greater opportunity. Regular bank customers who pay lower rates are no longer borrowing as much as they did. There's a reason: the better-risk customers are tapped out, having run up record levels of debt over the past couple of years in a spending boom. This anomaly, according to Joe Jolson, a leading analyst at Montgomery Securities, is "one of the best-kept secrets on Wall Street...
...since reigned as a champion of conservative Republican causes. This year he sponsored the Partial Birth Abortion Act to prosecute doctors who perform this rare procedure; and as chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, he fought unsuccessfully for an amendment to impose term limits. Running against his lesser-known cousin, his biggest challenge may be to make sure no one pulls the wrong lever by mistake...
Lazio's moderate brand of conservatism has won voters in a district whose ethnic and social diversity might have crushed a lesser candidate. After a gunman with a semiautomatic weapon killed six and injured 19 on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993, Lazio broke with his party to support the 1994 Clinton crime bill and the assault-weapons ban. Lazio speaks out against Big Government, but has also voted for legislation to protect access to abortion clinics...