Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing here to extol the virtues of the game of handball and to decry the disturbing trend in this University of late to supplant it with its inferior cousin. We speak of squash, that bastard child of tennis and handball...
Likewise, there have always been those at Harvard who must continually assert that Yale is an inferior educational institution. This sentiment is expressed most crudely in a 1905 Harvard Graduate's Magazine article that advocated the temporary cessation of games with Yale to preserve Harvard's preeminence. "Thanks to the linking of Yale's name with Harvard's in the sports of the past fifty years, the public, in its haphazard fashion, has gone on supposing that Harvard and Yale were about on a level as institutions of learning," the story's writer laments. Nothing, he adds, could be further...
Frederic Storaska, who has studied more than 4,000 rape cases as executive director of the National Organization for the Prevention of Rape and Assault, believes that there are two broad categories of rapists: the man who feels inferior, puts women on a pedestal and rapes to increase his own sense of worth; and the man who actually thinks women are "asking for it." Like the feminists, Storaska considers the principal cause of rape to be male aggressiveness, fostered by "the overall pressure our competitive society puts on its male contingent, giving men the impression that all things are there...
...management decisions. The first was hyperexpansion: between 1969 and 1973 the chain opened no fewer than 376 outlets, many in poor locations. One reason was simply ineffective planning, but there were other causes. The company sued at least three of its executives for allegedly accepting bribes to lease inferior sites at inflated rents. The second decision: Grant, which started as a 25 cent variety operation in 1906, began broadening its lines of clothing and home furnishings to include higher-priced merchandise, especially big appliances. To boost sales, the company expanded its credit operation. But while Grant sank deeper and deeper...
...parents object primarily to what they consider the inferior education and disorderly conditions at Parkland. Mrs. McCauley visited it last year and claims that "it hadn't been painted in eight years. There was no maintenance." Moreover, they have heard rumors of stabbings, rapes and other crimes in the Parkland neighborhood...