Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cleary, in his 18th year as Crimson hockey coach, number 300 could not have come at a better time. Harvard had not won a Beanpot since...
...branch of the Soviet government has been so secretive -- and so dreaded -- as the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), better known as the KGB. The world's largest spy and state-security machine, the KGB employs more than 500,000 people, including thousands of agents abroad. The agency has long been the stuff of shadowy legend, its name synonymous with terror and its doors shut tightly to the public...
...interest-group functions. Wright noted that since, under current rules, members are allowed to keep up to $26,000 a year in honorariums, "they'll come out about the same in income" with the 30% raise. But few House members earn the maximum in honorariums, so most will be better off. The House bill will also cut back salary increases for Executive-department officials and judges, even though the Constitution prohibits reducing judges' pay. "We'll let them fight it out," presumably through a court challenge, says the Speaker...
More and more professionals in midcareer are turning to teaching, where the pay is better than it once was and the rewards are immediately palpable...
...experts are skeptical about the effectiveness of vision therapy, hundreds of thousands of Americans have spent big money in the hope of sharpening their sight. A six-month program of weekly 45-minute sessions can cost as much as $3,000. Believers range from anxious parents who want to better their youngsters' academic performance to pro-baseball players like Yankee slugger Don Mattingly who thinks vision exercises help him keep his eye on the ball. Joe Fugaro of East Brunswick, N.J., credits the treatment with improving his trapshooting. "You need to keep your eyes tuned up," he says...