Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given this miserable situation, Romanov was asked, why did so many people vote for Yeltsin? A long pause. "I don't know," he said. Lychev, the schoolteacher, expressed disdain for Yeltsin but voted for him anyway. "It was a case of the lesser evil," he said. "The one thing I wanted to avoid was a turn back to the past." The village's fierce pharmacist, Tamara Bechina, who supports Zyuganov, had this explanation: "They voted for Yeltsin because they're benighted. They voted for Yeltsin because their bosses 'suggested' they do so." The village doctor, Lyubov Chuvikova, will also vote...
...their fetuses. Furthermore, many states execute people who deliberately kill, or arrange for the killing of, innocent human beings. The Republican platform is quite enthusiastic about this practice. But under equal protection, you certainly couldn't have the death penalty for killing a post-birth human being and a lesser punishment--or no punishment at all--for killing a fetus...
Similarly, a commercially valuable animal--a champion bull or a prize hog, for example--could keep producing sperm indefinitely, even after death, using lesser specimens as surrogate spermmakers. Stem cells also give rise to new stem cells, which can then be harvested and frozen in turn. As a result, says Pennsylvania veterinary physiologist Ralph Brinster, a co-author of both studies, "we can make any individual male biologically immortal...
When Thomas was looking at colleges, Harvard was not her natural choice. It was the lesser of several evils. After visiting several campuses and getting food poisoning at one, treated like garbage at another, and just having bad experiences at the rest, Harvard Pre-Frosh Weekend turned out to be the least offensive. "I hated everywhere else I went," Thomas says. "I never thought in a million years that I would come [to Harvard]." At first, Thomas was snobbish about attending Harvard, but an experience at Filene's Basement one morning during that weekend changed her mind. Another prefrosh, annoyed...
...before the crash and first published by the Chicago Tribune last week. According to that document, the low-cost carriers as a group--the analysts removed the large and well-established Southwest--had an accident rate that was far higher than that of the major carriers. (Accidents include such lesser incidents as momentary loss of engine power, as well as those in which a passenger is injured or killed.) And of the upstart group, ValuJet's rate--3.06 accidents per 100,000 departures, compared with 0.43 for the 14 other low-cost carriers studied--was the second worst (Tower...