Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bovian said she told her that by going on this trip, she will have made history, and will be better able to do more good...
...television audiences, the Super Bowl came accompanied with the usual baggage: hundreds of advertisements and horrendous commentary from Dick Enberg and Merlin Olson. For once, it was worth wading through the sludge of commercialism in order to see the game. The Bengals--surprise--were good. The 49ers were better...
Early on, it became apparent that this year's Super Bowl would be better than those of the last few years. When the teams left the field at halftime tied, 3-3, the only people groaning were those who had placed bets on the high side of the 47-point over-under spread. The rest of us kept watching, even if most of us forgot to bring our 3-D glasses for the, as always, puerile halftime show...
...father's. Hunter succeeds, and by playing up Lampitt's possible suicide and probable homosexuality, turns the life of a justifiably forgotten literary figure into a scandalous best seller. "One accomplishes nothing so stylishly as the thing in which one has no belief," thinks Julian. "Gigolos probably make better lovers than those weak with desire; the best politicians are those who are most like actors; the most influential churchmen are those who seem furthest from the ideals of the Gospel...
Apart from drying up a source of ethically questionable payments, the most convincing rationale for raising government pay is that better salaries will attract highly qualified people to government service. But while that logic may apply to the top-notch executives needed for senior posts in Cabinet departments and lawyers skilled enough to adorn the federal bench, it has little to do with Congress. Despite the alleged financial hardships of congressional service, vacant House and Senate seats never go begging. And few incumbents ever retire because of financial straits...