Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew they were better than 2-6," Glover said. "We just kept doing the same thing, and we had a few breaks in the second half...
...definitely didn't play as well as we could or should have," Co-Captain Manda Schossberger. "We started off with a bad match, but we did play better against Columbia and Princeton. It comes down to inexperience...
...little disappointed about the way we played," Burger said. "We played better during the regular season than we did at the tournament. We have a few things to be proud...
...First, I do not think final clubs are a healthy institution, but I don't believe they should be abolished or forced to admit women. A private institution, in my view, has the right to control its membership. If a club decides not to admit women, it's no better than a club deciding not to admit Jews. I have heard the argument that these clubs provide business connections, but those who join clubs usually have connections through their families. Clubs are elitist, I do not deny that. As far as I know, elitism and snobbery are not crimes...
Other computer centers had better luck. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., alerted to the problem by colleagues at Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., immediately "guillotined" their computers from the network to keep from getting hit. As a preventive measure, Maryland's Goddard Space Flight Center shut off its system on Thursday. Eventually, the Defense Department brought down both Arpanet and Milnet and began efforts to tighten the security of the networks...