1. Smaller in amount, value, or importance, especially in a comparison between two things: chose the lesser evil. 2. Of a smaller size than other, similar forms: the lesser anteater. adv.A comparative of little Less. Used before a participle: a lesser-known writer. n. One that is lowe...
This was in 1984—in other words, Ronald Reagan’s Department of Labor. So it was with considerable trepidation that I began punching in the phone number, but it turned out that my union man did not steer me wrong. The fellow I spoke with was a Carter holdover who actually believed in ...
A lesser evil The origins of a piece of data can be obscure; there’s no complete story about how each number is arrived at, and the certainty of an individual or a group hitting a particular target is affected by many external factors. Data looks like science, but sometimes it’s vague...