Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good sign was that at the end of the game we were able to drive it right down the field," Restic said. "That shows that our people are in good shape. And we will keep getting better every week...
...Food and Drug Administration isn't much better. A Congressional panel remarks that the FDA's formal rulemaking procedures "are complex, cumbersome, and time-consuming." As a result, the FDA usually relies on informal "action levels" if a chemical is present at levels above a certain level, the contaminated food can be seized. The action levels, however, can be set with little or no public input and little or no supporting scientific evidence. The result: possible dangerous levels of chemicals may be passing through the FDA's regulatory machinery with the FDA's blessing...
...Todo es mejor" ("Everything is better"), says one old man, dismissing my question about life after the revolution with a wave of his knarled hand. For much of this century he tilled the land, and, like many Cubans, was able to work only sporadically. Now he is a member of the self-contained rural cooperative Jibacoa, a dairy farm outside Havana with its own shops, schools, and health care facilities. Farmers who decide to join these rural communities receive payment for the sale of their farms and move to the state farms, where they are paid by the state...
Just what is supply economics? According to the business press, it is the latest successor to Keynesian economics: if we could ditch obsolete ideas and get a better answer for the supply side of the equation, we could overcome stagflation...
...naive and unrealistic to suppose that a better candidate than Kennedy will materialize from nowhere; certainly he towers over those who have already announced. We wholeheartedly support Kennedy for the presidency...