Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rushing game was Restic's use of a 4-3 alignment for about half of the game. Sophomore linebacker John Lausch, who came in for defensive tackle John Brzezenski on those plays, seemed to increase Harvard's flexibility against the run. The four defensive linemen were able to get better penetration lined up in the gaps rather than lined up directly across from someone, and the three linebackers were able to clog up any running room that did develop...
...ability to remain optimistic would truly be commendable were optimism itself an object of value. About the stock market, our president said simply, "I'm not worried." Visiting California, Bush did let his emotions get the better of him when he said "Jesus" at the sight of Interstate 880. But he quickly recovered enough to sound presidential in expressing his "genuine appreciation for the way this community is pulling together...
...session, scheduled for four days, collapsed after only two, during which pro-choice legislators turned back 14 antiabortion bills -- three of them proposed by the Governor. Abortion-rights activists were jubilant. "This has gone better than we hoped," exulted Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "It should encourage state politicians everywhere who are pro-choice to take a stand...
...international chaos by ruling out one especially messy technique of war. Explicitly limiting the ban to heads of state would be too openly cynical, but the deal in essence is: You don't kill our leader, we won't kill yours. National leaders, if not their citizens, sleep better that...
Communications back in Washington were not much better, in part because the Bush Administration did not follow a crisis-management practice from the Reagan era: immediately convene the senior deputies of the Defense and State Departments, the CIA and the National Security Council to compare information. Moreover, Bush, a former CIA director who loves to pore over undigested intelligence cables, insisted on receiving three streams of often conflicting reports from the CIA, Defense and State...