Word: lessers
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Salvi's rampage brought to five the number of abortion-clinic killings nationwide in the past two years. There have also been countless lesser acts of violence against abortion providers and their patients, including verbal and physical harassment, assaults and fire bombings. Government officials and activists on both sides of the contentious abortion issue were quick to condemn the killings. "You don't use murder to solve the problem of other murder. It is heresy," said the Rev. Flip Benham, director of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "While there...
...help pay for their welfare-reform proposal, which would cost money for things like job training and orphanages, the House G.O.P. would cut off many federal benefits, including student loans, school lunches and disability payments for the elderly, to legal immigrants. Clinton has also proposed tightening these to a lesser extent. Yet these are people who pay taxes and, with the exception of the refugees among them, use welfare less than native-born Americans...
...Americans and business interests. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week brushed off the inequities of Social Security and its projected insolvency, which he dismissed as "an abstraction that is 25 years from now." He added that it is "utterly irrational" to alarm retirees about entitlements before first reforming lesser categories of federal spending. President Clinton privately expressed similar reluctance to tackle welfare for the well-off because such a crusade would incur the wrath of interest groups influential among Democrats, including the elderly lobby, labor unions and the real estate industry...
Junior year represented a break-through. Although we ended the season with a very respectable 19-4 record, we weren't just winning, we were dominating. We destroyed lesser teams like Reading and Stoneham when they came to Wenner Field House. We routinely beat teams by more than 15 points on the road...
First, my response to the lesser charge of failing to propose the idea formally. Before I pursued the extension, I brought it before the Campus Life Committee--which The Crimson claimed I failed to do--where it was unanimously approved. I then brought it to the executive board, where no one objected to the action...