three-item "both"

[sagehen]

>Probably a revision error (there are one or two other evidences of
>haste in the article, such as "a charge that not require prosecutors
>to show knowledge of intent"), but perhaps a symptom of a seeming
>vogue for "both":
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/11drug-web.html?ref=business
>
>"they marketed and promoted OxyContin as a drug that was both less
>addictive, less subject to abuse and less likely to cause other
>narcotic side effects than other pain medications."
>
>James Harbeck.
>
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"Less addictive, less subject to abuse"  might have been seen as a single
quality, the second phrase simply amplifying the first. In that case, it
would have been clearer with an added "i.e.," or parentheses.
AM

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