Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unless the federal government begins to seriously consider better ways of resolving transportation labor disputes, the commuters of the world might have to unite after...
This is not to say that these standards are adequate, only to suggest that suddenly lowering them for a case of male-to-male harassment is highly suspect. If Buckley's friend is to receive some medal as the victim of sexual harassment in this incident, some-body had better make hundreds of them, because many women at this university have much better stories than that to tell (funny how our stories never get much sympathy...
...same world, which tries to to teach us very intolerant values. We have all swallowed homophobic attitudes: straight, bi and gay alike. It is fruitless to waste energy sidetracking the issue to defend our egos to each other; we must take what we have and make it better. There is no use for complacency here, only improvement. Elizabeth Flax...
Although the Saints won the ECAC title Saturday at Boston Garden, Harvard received the higher seed because it had a better winning percentage (.900) than St. Lawrence (.856) and swept the Saints in league action this season...
Tower is enough of a realist to recognize that his chances of confirmation are not much better than the odds that Breathalyzers will be installed in the Senate cloakroom. But his argument serves as a deft reminder that there are also Senators whose alcoholic and amorous behavior might not stand sustained scrutiny. There is just enough merit to Tower's who-is-fit-to-judge-whom bluster to accentuate the confusion over the proper standards of conduct for public officials...