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Word: better (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Advent has had bad relations with the neighborhood and its relations with the city were not much better. The president [of Advent] was going his own way--he was not going to work with anyone," City Councilor Kevin P. Crane '73 said yesterday...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Advent Corporation Leaves Cambridge | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...makes you think you are as important as the institution because you are a part of it--as important, and as impersonal. It teaches you to think like an institution, to quantify results and maximize outputs, to be reasonable and efficient. And to know, or think, that you are better than the rest...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...Right now, our standard procedure is to demonstrate to students the reality that they will have to take a make-up exam in the spring without the benefit of a reading period," Wacker said. "I certainly don't think they do any better the second time around," he added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Official Says Sickouts Up 14 Per Cent | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...with Every Which Way but Loose, a bald attempt to copy such Reynolds hits as Smokey and the Bandit and Hooper. It's a sorry enterprise. Though Eastwood has his talents, light comedy is not among them. With his granite glances and stony delivery, he'd be better off playing Hamlet than spinning jokes. When Eastwood tries to put on a happy face, it comes out as a snicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Exit | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...idea to be host to a man who would be influential in the next regime." Nationalism might have sharpened the French reportorial emphasis on discontent in Iran. But Rouleau is surely right in saying that in covering places like Saudi Arabia, the U.S. press must do a better job of understanding the power and outlook of Muslim nationalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Playing Catch-Up in Iran | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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