Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...institutions of higher education so long accustomed to enshrouding themselves in the most liberal, democratic traditions, can no longer say that "more is better" when it comes to money, and yet in the next breath claim that it is not an issue necessary for discussion...
...much better then. So much more honest. So much more exciting. Scandals never occurred. Great players never got traded. Solid managers never got fired. Back then, the players had heart and the game had integrity...
...Ramseyer said UCLA's program has been almost singlehandedly improved by Alford. "It's better here because of him," Ramseyer said...
...gods continue to smile on Nicholas Gage, a writer who knows how to tell a good story and, even better, has a good story to tell. His 1983 memoir, Eleni, pulled the reader into the pitiless Greek civil war of the late 1940s, when Communists fought to destroy the royalist government. Gage told how the Reds came to his mountain village to round up children for indoctrination in Albania. His mother resisted and smuggled him and three of his sisters to safety. For her defiance, Eleni was tortured, shot, and her body thrown into a ravine...
...oldest rule in the exercise of power is that if a nation tells the world it wants to get rid of a corrupt government, as the U.S. did in Panama, that nation had better have the means and the will to carry it through once an opportunity develops." So spoke old cold warrior Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, last week...