Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, we did better than last year," coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday. "After all 25 out of 26 is better than...
...really kind of thrilling," freshman Logan said. "I would have liked to run better, but it was exciting just to see all those great runners, the best cross-country runners in the nation--people I've always heard about...
...Americans out of work before Washington policymakers start pumping up the economy in an inflationary way to fight unemployment. A higher level of joblessness is tolerable today because so many more people are at work, and thus, if one family member loses his or her job, there is a better than 50% chance that another family member is collecting a paycheck and can take up the slack. This is a reason why the Federal Reserve Board felt prepared a month ago to put on extremely tight credit clamps, risking a jump in unemployment just as a recession appeared...
...ability to find excuses for not competing at all. So now Michael does not have to win the big race at the end. All he has to do is run it full out, and if you are actually wondering if he manages to do so, then you had better run right along to Running...
This is not to say that Douglas is an unappealing actor or that Susan Anspach, his long-suffering spouse, does not have some good moments playing a lady who knows better than to love him but cannot help herself. As a director, Steven Hilliard Stern does some nice, gritty road and street work. It is as a writer that he allows too much rigging to show. In both capacities, he tends to veer from the excessively melodramatic to the overly adorable, never finding the steady realistic pace that in movies, and in marathons, makes for a winning - or at least...