This half of the voters (call them the steroid ignorers) will vote for the players with steroid clouds, and the players perceived to be clean but with lesser accomplishments will be pushed from their ballots.
A man of lesser accomplishments, touting the same head-spinning claims, would impress few beyond an inner circle of sci-fi obsessives, but Kurzweil – honoured as an inventor by US presidents Lyndon B Johnson and Bill Clinton – has rightfully earned himself a stockpile of credibility.
But despite his enviable track record and a new novel, "Saul and Patsy" (Pantheon) due out Sept. 9, he remains surprisingly obscure, less read and talked about than writers of comparable -- or arguably lesser -- accomplishment.
The completion of the bridge that had been deemed impossible by the Western world gave Americans, who had lesser technical accomplishments than Europe at that time, a trophy that stood above any other.
Among his lesser-touted accomplishments was publishing and designing Omni, a canonical science-fiction magazine, producing films, collecting fine art, fighting for free speech, muckraking, painting, and patronizing hundreds of writers and artists.
Among his lesser-touted accomplishments was publishing and designing Omni, a canonical science-fiction magazine, producing films, collecting fine art, fighting for free speech, muckraking, painting and patronising hundreds of writers and artists.
But awards for plants often go to the lesser known, for accomplishments that the givers believe the recipients are capable of in the future.
"A university putting forward a candidate who has that lesser volume of accomplishments is to some degree taking a risk".
As compared to Richard Nixon, the incumbent vice president for eight years, John F. Kennedy was a lesser known senator of scant accomplishment.
