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Word: bettereds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zwirm acted neurotically and would pander to almost any group, no matter how politically repulsive. One of the council candidates was a Republican whom we nominated "for balance," taking the nomination away from an intelligent, articulate Democrat who could have run a much better campaign. The other council candidate was the hardest worker of the bunch. A liberal college professor, he is probably the only one on the slate with a chance...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Fear and Loathing on Long Island | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

Graham says since there are more women than men in Cambridge and Massachusetts and because they tend to have better voting records than their male counterparts, abortion will be the most important political issue in Cambridge...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: GOP Hopes Are High for 1990 Election | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...feral atavism with Machiavelli's cunning intellect. Friends perceived him as a courageous champion of basic American values. They remain united in the belief that he suffered a martyr's fate at the hands of the liberal aristocracy whose reign he challenged. For years, Watergate gave the bashers the better of the argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Martyr Or Machiavelli? | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...with a car, it's different. We still make some here; and while my friends assure me their foreign ones are a lot better, they all go at about the same speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Angles Why I Voted for a Used Car | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...worth noting that each of the four former Presidents has reverted to form with a vengeance. Reagan is back on the mashed-potato circuit (raised to a world-class level), taking fat fees for propounding his doctrine of hope and reward. Carter, who always was a better missionary than a President, now has the stature and the means to tread the globe's troubled pathways relentlessly urging reform and righteousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency The Yen to Stay Onstage | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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