Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women's fencing team had trouble early in its match against an inferior Southeastern Massachusetts squad Saturday, as Harvard used complex attacks when direct aggressiveness would have been more appropriate...
...British, who seized the colony in 1795, were equally harsh overlords who regarded the Afrikaners as obstinate and inferior. Afrikaners were excluded from jury service because of their language, forced to accept English-speaking ministers in their churches and tormented by courts that encouraged black servants to give evidence against their masters...
Grace says many Indians feel inferior, lack self-confidence. This may explain why these people are often unable to function in another world...
...second fact: for generations, racial discrimination in the U.S. isolated certain minorities [and] condemned them to inferior education. And then there is one third fact: there is no racially blind method of selection which will enroll today more than a trickle of minority students in the nation's colleges and professions...
...little wonder that many gifted minority students have poorer grades and test scores than less able white students who are not handicapped by the same socioeconomic disadvantages. The goal of the minority-admissions programs is to seek out minority students who, notwithstanding inferior grades and test scores, are believed to be as able as their white classmates and therefore equally deserving of higher education...