Quoted in the NYT:

[Larry Sheldon]

On 3/11/2012 3:30 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> "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...

It is one of those things that, given my bias against our failed press,
that makes me say "hmmmm...obviously a clue to a hidden agendum, why am
I not smart enough to see it?"

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