Word: better
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said his master plan will call for reconstructing the 75- to 150-year old stone buildings in the city's center, which withstood the quake much better than the newer apartment blocks on the outskirts...
...Their attack has gotten better," Coach Carole Kleinfelder said. "They also have a stronger goalie this year than they did last year...
...Moines office, he would not relinquish his Iowa life-style. "We based that decision on the quality of the environment," he says. "People do work hard here, and there is a deep appreciation for family life." He traded a higher salary and a two-hour commute for better schools and more free time. "We wonder how we did it, went through the routine," he says...
...even if it can, there is no guarantee that the effects will trickle down to the middle- and lower-class Mexicans who need help desperately. Says a U.S. State Department official, with considerable understatement: "The average Mexican will have to ask himself the old Reagan question, 'Am I better off than I was four years ago?' The answer will have to be yes, or we could start to see some trouble...
...before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar for dollar, crank is better than coke: coke is just a little sexier, but crank goes eight times as far." It is obviously a more profitable line for American traffickers inclined to avoid exporting their earnings to Colombia...