Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atkins said he believes busing advocates are "protesting on the basis of inferior schools." Racial prejudice, fear and resentment are the "three motivating factors" underlying anti-busing sentiment, he said...
...Last week as well, financially straitened W.T. Grant Co. filed civil fraud charges in New York federal court against three of its executives -including John A. Christensen, a $72,000-a-year vice president-alleging that they had accepted bribes from an Atlanta-based real estate developer to lease inferior sites for shopping centers at inflated rates. According to the complaint, the kickbacks exceeded $100,000, and ranged from trips to Acapulco to a $33,000 stable built on Christensen's farm in Connecticut. The company is asking $5 million in damages from the three men, the real estate...
...tricky question, how the experiences of women differ from those of men. The idea of specific masculine and feminine reactions to pain or work or sex has been used over and over again to show how women are weaker or stupider or basically inferior to men. For example, for two hundred years, women who write fiction have been saddled with either accepting or trying to deny "the bright, controlled subjectivity of a feminine prose manner"--all the words and criticisms that have relegated the works of both Jane Austen and Jacqueline Susann to the same back boudoir filled with overfrilled...
There are many ways to lose a basketball game. You can have a last-minute rally fall one point short in the final seconds as Harvard did against Brown a week ago, or you can be upset by a team inferior in talent but superior in inspiration as was the case in last Tuesday's Harvard-Brandeis encounter...
...powers of cloakroom persuasion. His range is indicated by two pieces of legislation that he considers to be major achievements: 1) an act creating a comprehensive federal policy on environmental protection, and 2) an amendment directing that future arms agreements with Russia do not leave the U.S. with inferior numbers of weapons. Critics point out that numbers alone are largely meaningless, but this hardly bothers Jackson...