Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today. This afternoon, the hurricane's 75-mph winds swirled 325 miles off Cape Hatteras and forecasters expected no immediate threat to U.S. shores. (It could, however, shift back toward land anywhere up to New England, they said.) Meanwhile, says TIME Miami Bureau Chief Cathy Booth, Gordon's lesser incarnation swamped 35,000 acres of cropland in Florida's Dade County -- destroying about half the U.S. winter vegetable crop and ensuring skyrocketing prices. About 550 homes were also damaged...
Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter J. Mullin had asked for 36 months in prison, but federal Judge Mark L. Wolf handed down a lesser sentence because he said that Dime's policies encouraged the fraud...
Nonetheless, Duran's attempt was so pathetic that the Secret Service refuses even to charge him with attempting to assassinate the President. They opted for lesser felony counts. While there is no law against being an idiot, evidently it is illegal for convicted felons to possess weapons and for any citizen is damage Government property...
Perhaps there is something to be said lot choosing the lesser of two evils. But neither candidate can do a good job representing the people of Massachusetts. And neither deserves your vote...
...Gray Sexton uses memory, dreams and her mother's poetry to broadly reconstruct a history of milestones and events in the two women's lives. Presented in tandem, their histories illustrate a destructive cycle of abandonment and dependence, a pattern which plagued the Sexton family and, perhaps to a lesser extent, plagues the American family today...