Word: lessers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time, who knows? Will Atonement, deemed Best Drama, and Sweeney Todd, the Best Comedy or Musical (we say Musical), even be nominated by the Motion Picture Academy? And if Hollywood grandees don't ornament their big dinner, isn't the HFPA revealed as, let us say, one of the lesser critics' groups? Without the star-stacked, televised party, they're just 82 schlubs with funny accents...
...Democrats big and brassy and confident; Republican gatherings smaller and more dutiful. It was easy to find voters who said they had decided for Edwards or Obama but had great respect for Clinton and thought she'd make a fine President as well. Many Republican voters talked about a lesser of evils...
...increase in carbon dioxide in the near future will come from outside the developed world. But while funders are flocking to CDM, with over 1,500 projects in the pipeline by the end of 2006, the vast majority of those are in rapidly growing China and to a lesser extent India. Indonesia - a country of 234 million, which hosted the U.N.'s climate change conference in December - is involved in just 2% of global CDM projects. That needs to increase, and fast, for Indonesia and the rest of the world...
...Affecting up to 90% of women in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia, FGM is widely seen as an African phenomenon. But it also happens to a lesser extent throughout the Middle East, particularly in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq...
...magazine’s Dec. 10 issue, reporter Anthony Bianco wrote that Faust believes “it would be wise” for “lesser universities” to shift their focus away from hard science, given the fierce competition for federal funding...