Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Juan Figueroa, a former guard in the Business School who was fired last spring, has already filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging his termination was wrong because he had no history of discipline and because other guards were given lesser punishment for the same offense...
...prices are lower than Herrell's and Steve's, but make no mistake. In a lesser city than Cambridge, Toscanini's would be considered an ice cream crown jewel. As it is, it's still a gem--and you can see them making the ice cream through the window next door...
...debt, Fimpar, the Aga Khan's holding company, planned to raise $200 million on the Milan stock exchange. But the Gulf War scared off investors, and the plans had to be dropped. Finally, the Aga Khan hired Goldman Sachs last year to sell off some of Ciga's lesser hotels in hopes of raising roughly $175 million to repay loans and stanch losses. One of the few buyers that stepped forward was Situr, an Italian property group, but before a deal could be struck, Situr alleged that Ciga's books contained serious irregularities and dropped out of the negotiations...
...part of the new mental-health benefits under consideration at the White House. The President would meet little resistance in proposing such coverage. Only about 5 million Americans suffer from such conditions as severe depression and schizophrenia. But another 34 million people at any given time need treatment for lesser problems like moderate anxiety and depression. As he nears his deadline of mid-June for presenting his health-care reforms to Congress, Clinton is trying to decide whether to guarantee coverage of everything from hospitalization and psychotherapeutic drugs to open-ended talk therapy...
...romantic, thrilling choice. Was it the right one? Probably. Michaels would certainly have declined to produce Shandling, and the show would have been a long shot anyway. Late Night with Some Vaguely Familiar Lesser Comedian probably would have tanked too, and more embarrassingly. O'Brien's version may also fail, but as long as nothing but long shots were available, why not go for the longest? O'Brien is cheap to employ and, if need be, to fire. The audience expectations will be helpfully...