Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played better than I expected," Foster said. "Last year we lost team Captain Terry Murray to graduation and I was unsure about this year's returning talent. But it was obvious that the guys worked hard over the summer...
Just as the Harvard golf team was prepared to surge toward the top of the 25-team Toski Invitational field, Mother Nature intervened and assured that it would fare no better than 11th. The final round of the tournament, held at the Hickory Ridge Country Club in Amherst, was canceled because of heavy rains yesterday. This left the Crimson with a team total of 246 strokes, 36 behind victorious Central Connecticut, which posted...
...better win it all this year," the Oakland fan said. "Last year, we were the best team in baseball. Jose Canseco was more than the MVP. He was the king, czar, whatever. Dennis Eckersley could have put out those Yellowstone fires by himself. We just huffed and puffed and blew the Red Sox out of the playoffs...
Bacque's recounting of those policy decisions may hold up to historical scrutiny better than his statistics. His evidence on the death toll in American camps comes from fragmentary, often contradictory Army records. Says historian Arthur L. Smith of California State University, Los Angeles, who has written about German soldiers in the postwar years: "How do you get rid of a million bodies?" Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose also disagrees with Bacque on several key points. Nevertheless, he says, "we as Americans can't duck the fact that terrible things happened. And they happened...
...appeared misplaced. But at the same time his virtuoso display of political control highlighted a central question: If he can hire and fire the country's most powerful men, why hasn't perestroika -- his plan to restructure the economy -- paid off in the currency the country demands, a better standard of living for Soviet citizens...