Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limits, if any, should be put on persons advocating highly controversial views has been hotly debated on university campuses, the traditional American citadels of free speech. The man at the center of the storm has often been Physicist William Shockley of Stanford University, who theorizes that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. On April 15, 1974, a group of howling students, stomping their feet and shouting slogans, made it impossible for Shockley to address an audience at Yale University...
...AMERICAN BIBLE (1970). A rigorously contemporary, sometimes spare, U.S. Catholic rendition. Also a translation from the original languages, it and the Jerusalem Bible are supplanting the Douay-Rheims Bible, a Catholic version contemporary with, but inferior to, the King James...
...with what look and sound like $20 speakers. Sound from a stereo can only be as good as the signal from the weakest component in the system; it's a waste of money to get decent sound through all those transistors and capacitors in the amplifier only to allow inferior speakers to mangle it. Also, ignore everything the brochures and salesmen tell you about these systems. At this price range the statistics are meaningless--shop around for an afternoon or two and buy whatever sounds best...
...been acutely embarrassed recently by what has become known as the "Stehlin affair." A retired commanding general of the French air force (1960-63) and vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, Paul Stehlin wrote a memorandum to Giscard suggesting that France's Mirage F1/M53 fighter was inferior to two new U.S. jets, General Dynamics' YF-16 and Northrop's YF-17. Most impartial aviation experts agree, but Stehlin made the point during a feverish competition over whether the Mirage or one of the U.S. planes will become the standard fighter for NATO'S forces...
...Legal. Moreover, on the first day of the trial, Bert admitted to doctoring inferior Bordeaux reds to improve their taste-and price. He said that he never received a single complaint from any of his customers. Bert conceded that he had mixed white wines with red, because "a little white wine does not harm the quality when there is too much tannin in the red." "Yes, but it's not legal," said the presiding judge, resplendent in a black robe trimmed with artificial ermine. "No, but it's good," answered Bert...