Quoted in the NYT:

[Wilson Gray]

"Towns and counties across the state are starting to have to make the
real choices - _fewer cops_, _fewer firefighters_, slower ambulance
response, _LESS teachers_ in front of the classroom."
MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG of New York City


He uses the prescribed _fewer_ for policemen and firemen, but the
prescriptively-condemned _less_ for teachers.

This is probably of no intrinsic interest, but...

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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