Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accusing Mead of over-simplifying and over-generalizing also involves an oversight. If anthropology is to be of any value, then it must extend beyond elitist technical jargon. It must apply itself to the real world by reaching out and teaching the public. Mead succeeded better than anyone else at doing just that, and simplification and generalization were only minor sacrifices she made to accomplish the greater good...
...NOTEBOOK: Why is the team playing better? Coach Bertagna credited "good positional hockey" and the resurgence of netminder Worsley. Huber said the team was showing "a lot more communication and organization, and our passes are starting to connect now." A rematch with Providence is next on the schedule (face-off Tuesday, 5 p.m., at Walter Brown Arena...
...Ithaca was better than Cornell, but I don't think either were tough this weekend," Curry said...
...Southern culture." Others suggest that twirling is encouraged by the warm autumn weather and a lack of organized sports for girls. Some feminists argue that in Texas more than elsewhere the preferred way for a girl to get ahead is to catch a man's eye, and what better way is there than twirling? Whatever its roots, the twirling line is as Texan as Lone Star Beer and chicken-fried steaks...
...Teng was planning to replace Hua as Premier. Yet in a talk with Yoshikatsu Takeiri, head of Japan's Clean Government Party, the Vice Premier renounced any designs on that prestigious job. "I am too old and I wish to live longer," he explained. "A younger man is better for the job." (Hua is 57.) Similarly, al though few experts believe that the protesters would have denounced either Mao or Hua without Teng's permission, he chided the author of a wall poster that described Mao as being "70% good and 30% bad." Said Teng: "Mao was better...