To this end, the less specific and recognizable the better.
"He fished a Camel from his shirt pocket may be preferable to the less specific cigarette," it says.
In the place of the pregnancy confession he takes the less specific idea of "a devastating disclosure" and offers three possible outcomes.
But, hinting at more substantive disagreements, she also said: "Every country that accedes would like to get in doing less rather than more, and the less specific the better.
And the less specific and more inclusive an institution becomes, the more likely people are to approach it casually, if they enter it at all.
Consumer groups had opposed the request because some consumers have adverse reactions to the substance and might be confused by the less specific identification.
The less specific term heart attack may be more desirable because of these difficulties in describing the causation of the disease entity.
At some point in the process — Mr. Petraeus told lawmakers he was not sure where — objections were raised to naming the groups, and the less specific word "extremists" was substituted.
The Bush administration briefs in the Michigan case argued this month that the extra points given to minority undergraduate applicants and the less specific preferences given to minority law school applicants violated the constitutional guarantees of equal protection of the law.
The word left out of the series beginning with Fascism and Nazism is, of course, Communism; however, the administration is seeking help from Russia and other former Soviet republics, in which many former and present Communists live -- hence, the less specific, all-encompassing totalitarianism.
Obviously, the larger the size of range R is, the less specific characteristics will be preserved.
