Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough to deserve outright acquittal. Witness part of his testimony about killing Kitty: "I could see somebody moving where my mother should be. So I reloaded. I ran around and shot my mom. I shot her close." The betting now is that the two will be convicted of a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter or second-degree murder, with acquittal an outside chance. But nobody ever knows what a jury, let alone two juries, will do when the door closes...
Dalton's complaint stated that five men with lesser credentials were given tenure in the same year she was denied it. Dalton did not get the two-thirds vote of the faculty necessary for a tenure offer...
...most of all, Magaziner needed to conduct what one task-force member called "Ira's own heuristic process. This is the way Ira decides things," the official said. "He gets as many people in a room and talks for as long as everyone can stand." Of course, to a lesser extreme, it was also the way Clinton decided things. "Managed competition was a thesis that needed to be proven," admits Mark Gearan, White House communications director. "That's what the task force...
...feelings -- his decades of defeat surely helped -- Hawthorne unforgettably evokes a man who is at once ruler and soiled dependent, blending dignity and hysteria, imperiousness and despair. He makes one hungry to see him all-out as Learand grateful that he finds Shakespearean depths in lesser parts because he finds them in himself...
...firmly agree that there is a problem, to change course society requires a vision: Where are we headed? Social conservatives nostalgically envision a return to the days when moms did the nurturing and pops brought home the bacon. However, there is no moral justification for treating women as having lesser rights than men, denying them the right to work outside the home and largely exempting men from parental responsibilities. The communitarian movement -- which seeks to shore up the moral, social and political foundations of society -- is closer to the mark. Communitarians, for whom I often speak, envision a family...