Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court's recent decision is a national disgrace that is out of step with the constitution. Education is integral to carrying out the functions of government sketched out in the constitution's preamble. In the age of information, how could a government better "ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and secure the blessings of liberty" than by educating its citizens...
...played so much better [Saturday] than we did Tuesday," Tri-Captain Jen White said. "That [first] goal really fired them up and put them back in the game...
...didn't want them to hurt us by getting easy buckets in transition or off the press," Roby said. "That's where we did a better job tonight...
...think we came in with the right attitude," Masland said. "Yale just played better squash. They really played well. They're a small level above us. It was kind of anticlimactic. [Last] Wednesday was such a high for us. It's not an excuse, but it's not the same level of intensity...
...would place a $90 million, high-powered radar station so close to an airport that it has to be shut down every time a plane lands? Someone, it turns out, who should know better: the U.S. Air Force Space Command. The problem exists at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, where a giant early- warning radar searches for missiles launched from submarines. But the apparatus is only 1.5 miles from the approach end of a runway, and Air Force electronic engineers fear that its emissions could trigger electromagnetic explosive devices on many military aircraft. Those devices are used mainly...