Quoted in the NYT:

[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 11, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> 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?"

Mayor Bloomberg clearly regards police officers and firefighters as individuals, but teachers as an undifferentiated mass.

LH

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