Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think we gained their respect," Konovalchik said. "The program is really coming along. We're really starting to build. We've got a better team than last year and I'm expecting to beat both University of Pennsylvania and Princeton this weekend...
...were in a much better position [Friday] than I anticipated," Haggerty said. "It was a combination of our effort and Northeastern not doing as well, which is alright with...
That was before this writer figured out what was wrong. Before, during the days of predicting Columbia to win all its games, this writer never thought about his predictions. He used to let the others think. Emotion, a hunch, which team had the better uniform was what guided...
Laser discs (basically, CDs with movies on them) may have suffered from consumer confusion in the marketplace. But for film aficionados and filmmakers, from Steven Spielberg to Martin Scorsese, they are the home- viewing medium of choice. With peerless sound and a better picture than even the best VCR can deliver, laser discs do the fullest justice to their theatrical source material. To make them even more attractive to movie buffs and general viewers, disc producers are offering extras unavailable on tape and often even in theaters, such as Bolger's full dance number, which never made it into...
...table manners involved. But the rules change markedly when it comes to autobiographies by the lesser known. Everybody, after all, has a life story, and the reluctance to spend money and time on a relative stranger's is considerable. This, the wary reader is likely to mutter, had better be good...