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Word: betterment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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HUDS employees listen to student comments at mealtimes and report back to Hennessey on what students like and dislike, she says. And every week, HUDS production supervisors meet with Hennessey to discuss what is being done right and what can be done better...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: A Day in the Life of the Dining Services | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

Several days later, they published a "news analysis" that seemed to imply that newspapers were above such criticism. The news piece, which included statements better suited for an editorial page, was so unprofessional that the paper ran an editor's note the following day, retracting most of the article...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Missing the Point | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

...what it's worth, people like Jeffrey MacDonald should know better than to try forcing a writer to produce a favorable story. Journalists are trying to get the best stories possible and to report what they believe to be true...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Missing the Point | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

...Gorbachev's reforms and initiatives--which include pulling out of Afghanistan, signing the INF, adopting hard-line budgeting, providing more and better consumer products and importing Coca-Cola, Billy Joel and openess--are themselves symptomatic of a dilemma which looms large in Kremlin minds. The Soviets are coming to grips with the fact that they cannot economically or politically afford to keep up the arms race and their policy of expansion at the expense of domestic priorities...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: One Cold War, Two Losers | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

...Yale] handled [the rough conditions] better than we did," Davis said. "They were able to handle it, and keep up to 38 [strokes per minute], while we stayed...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Yale Edges M. Lightweights | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

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