Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When IBM announced its quarterly results last Monday, the news seemed like the last, grateful chapter of some Joseph Conrad epic. IBM had returned from its arduous journey to the land of lesser companies. It had produced a solidly black summer. Profits, the company said, rose ahead of expectations; hot new IBM computers such as the ThinkPad 560 were rocketing off the shelves for the first time in decades; and the company's services business, which helps firms get up to the warp speed of the infobahn, had booked a mind-blowing $11 billion in business in the first nine...
...Many of those to whom I speak about the presidential campaign express their desire to vote for President Clinton, an unacceptable option, as he has trampled the concept of ethical leadership, especially in regards to his signing of an extremely suspect welfare reform bill. Bob Dole is merely the lesser of two evils and obviously not the right choice. So, I made my decision and expressed my intention to vote in state and municipal races...
...critical of future administrations. And they misunderstand the concept of a civic society. It has to be argued that voting in the current presidential election may not produce any worthwhile results and that other forms of political participation would allow us to avoid having to choose between the lesser of two evils. Most Americans want to choose between the greater of two goods, but do not see how to achieve this goal...
...American people. If, as all the polls indicate, President Clinton is reelected on November 5, it will be because his administration finally offered what it promised in 1992, a clean break from the failed policies of Washington. Mimicking the worst of one's opponent, pandering to the lesser angels of our nature and breaking faith with one's own principles is "more of the same" politics Bill Clinton should have been better than...
Except for Mansfield, who plans to vote for Republican nominee Robert J. Dole, the panelists expressed luke-warm support for President Clinton, viewing him as the lesser of two evils...