Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lusaka at the end of a two-week tour of Africa, she was cheered by Zambians everywhere she went as "Queenie! Queenie!" When Britain's other female leader, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, arrived in the same city for the Commonwealth Conference, she got a reception that might better have been accorded the queen of a leper colony. By week's end, however, her peers among the 41 Commonwealth leaders at the eight-day conference readily acknowledged that Mrs. Thatcher had made an important contribution toward solving an explosive issue that threatened to wreck the conference-namely, the problem...
...Congress seems to favor doing something for Chrysler, although $1 billion in tax refunds is distasteful to legislators who yearn to narrow the federal deficit. They may move instead for a loan guarantee. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long has pledged some aid for Chrysler. Says he: "It is better than letting the company fold. That would cost a lot of revenue and jobs." House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman is unenthusiastic but promises to expedite whatever bailout measures the Carter Administration proposes...
...unsurprising if unfortunate because, along with being the most innovative of moneymen, the Citicorp chairman delivers outspoken opinions with a rapier tongue that belies his early career as a State Department diplomat. In a glass house 15 stories above Park Avenue, he sits at a circular desk (the better to gather aides around to chew over ideas) and, eyebrows arched and wisecracks flying, tosses out some sharp-edged stones. His main concern: "I think that we are steadily losing our freedoms...
Rather like the reasoning of liturgical reformers in Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, the rationale of the Episcopal revisers was that the church needed an up-to-date liturgy in contemporary language that parishioners can better understand. They also wanted to make use of the latest liturgical scholarship, not only by modernizing texts but by reorganizing the parts of the service logically. The Gloria, for instance, comes much earlier than it did in the 1928 edition because that was the practice in the early church. The new prayer book also offers a choice of a fairly traditional or a modern text...
...many experts believe, any attempt to contain erosion is futile. After spending millions of dollars on trying to save beaches along Cape Hatteras and elsewhere, the National Park Service decided that in most cases it was better to leave nature alone. But Miami Beach's leaders felt that the survival of the resort was at stake. With the support of the Florida congressional delegation, the Corps of Engineers began what is the largest beach restoration ever attempted. When the corps completes the project in 1981, it will have laid down 10.5 miles of new beach (1.2 miles in neighboring...