Quoted in the NYT:

[Larry Sheldon]

On 3/11/2012 7:14 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

> 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.

I think we have a winner.

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