Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...excited to play whichever team comes out of it," Co-Captain Katie McAnaney said. "It gives us a chance to play Princeton again, to reaffirm that we're the better team, and UVA is a Southern team we've always heard about but never got a chance to match up against...
...nice to have a bye because that gives us an extra weekend to get the kinks out and for exams and papers and what not," McAnaney said, "but at the same time it's pressure because the only way to get any better is to win the whole thing, which means just playing as well as we know...
...befuddled priest more interested in his historical study of parish life since 1386 than in sex. Her son Rick (Andrew Ott), who has always been afraid of women, is now a member of a London sect devoted to parent hatred, which doesn't make her feel any better. Aside from the uptight Gerald, her only companion is her antagonistic sister-in-law, an incompetent Cornish cook with a reincarnation fetish...
...Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights has a surreal and oxymoronic ring. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, better known as a patron of terrorism than a benefactor of humanitarian causes, has unaccountably set up a Swiss foundation to bestow an annual award on a Third World figure in the forefront of "liberation struggles." Last week Nelson Mandela, the jailed black South African leader, was named the first recipient of the prize and the $250,000 that goes with...