Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given the choice, virtually all delinquents opt for sentencing by the youthful juries. "It's a lot better than going before a judge," says a 16-year-old who stole a car at knife point and was required to accept counseling and strict curfew rules for a year. "It was good to talk to someone who understands," he says of his jury...
Other investment metals have been better buys in the past year. Platinum, at $5 10 per oz., has risen by almost 75% since last October. Silver, at $15.92 per oz., has nearly tripled, largely because investors have been buying it as a sort of poor man's bullion...
They felt uneasy about me, about being close to me in a small car. I think they felt not exactly certain of what I might do next. And I knew they would not have felt better about it if I had told them I didn't have the faintest notion, either, of what I might do next, today, tomorrow, or ever...
...about the same type of match as last week. Sleeper was just playing better today than she did last week," Meyer said yesterday...
...because "it's one good way of keeping my shape." Toni M. Hoover '81 says she "always wanted to in high school" but couldn't because she marched in the band. Coutu says she's been doing it for "years and years," but thought "it might be even better here, since, you know, this is Harvard." Besides, she throws in, "you travel...