Word: lessers
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...Thomas Allen, or even their respective parties. The pro-Longley spots come courtesy of the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Restaurant Association and a coalition of corporations led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The anti-Longley information was supplied by the AFL-CIO and, to a lesser extent, the American Association of Retired Persons. By taking advantage of a legal loophole in campaign-finance laws that permit so-called independent expenditures, special-interest groups are hogging the airwaves, phone lines and printshops in dozens of the most hotly contested congressional races around the country. In districts held...
However, the next debate will be held in a "town hall" format, which decreases the possibility that the candidates will face tough questions or follow-up queries. The American people will probably have to choose the lesser of two evils after listening to a mind-numbing collection of insipid cliches and metaphors about bridges...
...spruce, yellow cedar and hemlock. The shelter of these giants is vital for wildlife, but the trees are also the prize sought by loggers--a single 200-ft. Sitka spruce may yield 10,000 board feet of timber so fine it can be used to make pianos and guitars. Lesser trees fuel pulp mills that mean hundreds of jobs. Thus the debate over the rights to this temperate paradise has been anything but temperate...
Gallucio says that the shift in recent years toward lesser recognition of Columbus Day is unwarranted...
Also, because such a high percentage of Harvard applicants are more or less equally qualified to be admitted, affirmative action has never been used to admit lesser-qualified applicants but rather as a "tie-breaker," he says...