Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unions said that the best solution would be for Harvard to maintain ties to the firm and try to help the workers gain a fair contract...
...cause of dementia in the elderly, Alzheimer's killed some 100,000 Americans last year and afflicts 2.5 million with what has been called the death of the mind. Symptoms include severe loss of memory and personality changes that range from angry outbursts to withdrawal and depression. Diagnosis -- at best tentative -- has been possible only through a process of eliminating other brain ailments that could cause similar symptoms...
When he arrived, Ralph Dull thought he could best assist his Soviet friends by serving as a kind of senior adviser who would help the Soviets improve their outmoded agricultural methods. He had not expected to work in the fields...
...this final week of the season, some of the best races in years are coming down to the wire, complete with unlikely teams (the Cubs? the Orioles?) and contrasting philosophies of life...
...property, and should go to the mother. In an opinion loaded with some of the coded language that often surrounds abortion controversies, Young ruled that "human life begins at conception." The lawsuit ought to be decided as a question of custody, he concluded, and "it is to the manifest best interests of the child or children, in vitro that they be available for implantation." Questions of final custody, child support and visitation rights will be decided later if there is a birth. Junior Davis immediately announced he would appeal...