Word: abler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against the Crimson, the play broke down when Clark--playing quarterback this time--was unable to break clear after handing off to running back Jeff Abler. Without Clark as an option to throw to, Abler tried to force a pass into double coverage into the end zone and was intercepted by cornerback Jim Smith...
...weeks earlier, were articulate, amiable, pat, well coached and sincere as all get-out. It should have been more impressive. Hubert Humphrey or Dwight Eisenhower or Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to compact his message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot. When performance on television is the chief criterion, two preachers such as Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson, who have never drafted legislation, governed a state or even served on a city council, seem just as qualified for the presidency as those who have...
Flynn will win the Boston mayoral election because he has been abler to convince the voting public that he and the clearly liberal King are essentially the same. They...
...minority group's values are its "human capital." Thus Japanese Americans have succeeded, despite generations under restrictive laws and incarceration during World War II, because of intense commitment to "the honor of the family." Italian Americans, though similarly family-centered, have done less well, he says, because the abler members of each generation were taught that upward mobility would estrange them from-even betray-the rest of the family. Some of these group traits sound like pernicious stereotypes, especially his portrayal of blacks. Writes Sowell: "With little incentive to work any more than necessary to escape punishment, slaves developed...
...study says males may be naturally abler than females...