Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to better distribute student groups throughout the residential houses and to simplify the lottery system, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 yesterday announced two alterations to the freshman lottery system...
Student who couldn't keep warm late at night last semster should notice a significant change for the better--thanks to a new change in the University's heating policy...
...would be very surprised if in the next few years the faculty office space on that site was very sensible," says Bok, while ceding that better alternatives may exist...
...Judge," bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal charge. Time and again, Bingham prefers the rumor. It not only makes better gossip, but it fits in with her male-bashing thesis. It also allows her to note that the Binghams got their start with a woman's money...
Paulos swiftly explodes that notion by discussing stock-market scams, batting averages, newspaper psychics, fraudulent medical treatments, election polls and the reasons why blackjack is a better gambler's game than dice. Those who break into a sweat at the mention of calculus or plane geometry can relax. This elegant little survival manual is brief, witty and full of practical applications. Best of all, it has no quiz at the end, and as Paulos generously admits, the "occasional difficult passage can be ignored with impunity...