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About the latter: Lest we forget, the U.S. spends more than $13,400 on healthcare per person, almost double the figure in other highly productive nations like Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Sweden.
From MarketWatch
We stay and fight lest we disappoint our comrades in arms.
Avoid college or high-school reunions, advises Alain de Botton, lest one learn there that old friends “now reside in houses grander than ours, bought on the salaries they are paid in more enticing occupations than our own.”
Many must gather secretly, careful not to arrive all at once or sing too loudly, lest mobs or police hear about it.
Lest anyone think that it’s easy for a three-time Oscar winner to make a movie these days, Brooks is happy to differ, saying it is as hard for him as for anyone else.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
