Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a moral standpoint, the deal is clearly indefensible. Developed nations are using their inherent advantage of wealth to foist off a lop-sided deal on people who, through no fault of their own, have no better choice...
Yesterday's vote follows three unsuccessful attempts to unionize professionals at UMass in the past 11 years, most recently in 1986, and observers credited yesterday's healthy turnout on better organization as well as the gloomy financial climate...
Jeff and Beau Bridges play Jack and Frank Baker--brothers who make their living in a two-piano nightclub act. Frank spits out the typical lounge-lizard vapid-speak which is endemic to "fill-the-tables/move-the-liquor" -type establishments. Jack, the younger, hipper and better-looking of the two, steadfastly suffers through the schmaltz for 31 years...
...hours late, with broken shoes and a mouthful of chewing gum. She is Suzie Diamond, an entrancing former employee of the Triple A Escort Service. Tired of being the glittering wrist ornament of shoe vendors and lug-wrench magnates, Suzie hopes a nightclub microphone can lead her to a better life...
...They were a physical team, but we got the calls," Arico said. "They gave us a lot of trouble in the first half, but we started to click as a team much better in the second...