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Word: inferior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them to make more concessions to the U.S. He thinks the U.S. defense budget could be cut by about $7 billion a year, chiefly through eliminating bureaucratic waste and some expensive weapons systems, such as the B-1 bomber. But, because he believes that the U.S. fleet is becoming inferior to Russia's, he would accelerate naval shipbuilding, including the nuclear, missile-firing Trident submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Jimmy Carter's Big Breakthrough | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

Formidable Seduction. Johnson's brains were inferior to very few-his genes and his drives were second to none. He lacked only a sense of proportion and restraint. Early in life, he demonstrated a formidable gift of persuasion. He had an uncanny knack for attaching himself to men of power-in school, in the New Deal bureaucracy, in Congress, in the Senate. He was miffed that his talent was dismissed as "arm-twisting"; he considered it soul-catching of a very high order. Intellectuals, he complained to Kearns, "never take time to think about what goes on in these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: L.B.J.: Naked to His Enemies | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...Nixon drunkenly pass along his friend Bebe Rebozo's advice on the Viet Nam War; another time they heard Nixon say of American servicemen killed or wounded in one major battle: "Oh, screw 'em." The secretaries also heard Nixon make what they considered "nasty references about the inferior intelligence of blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further Notes on Nixon's Downfall | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...people with whom you've got a lot in common. Nonetheless, that clubs and their "MEMBERS ONLY" physical presence do tend to stratify the Harvard community on social standards of personal wealth, background, and education is not a positive thing. And I personally feel that if one person feels inferior because he or she was not asked to join a club, or if one person feels superior because he is a member of that clique and others are not, then clubs are an evil institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN'S CLUB | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

...indeed it was. Although it contained some roundhouse generalities (the food industry operates in a "moral swamp," and "supermarket people take us for fools"), the story focused largely on one independent store-owner's account of shady retail practices, such as short-weighting meat and passing off inferior fish as sole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shorting the Sale | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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