Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally our ice cream has not been cheapened by inferior substitutes because of inflation. We still offer pleasant, efficient and courteous service when dispensing our various 31-derful flavors. Sam Citron Harvard Sq. Baskin-Robbins
...rate, our nations defend themselves. But despite this, the population of our countries increases vigorously. It is true that technological advance in the field of medicine has risen, and these advances have improved living conditions somewhat. Our average life expectancy has also risen, although, certainly, it is still much inferior to that of the capitalist industrial countries and the socialist countries...
...cultural standard of the people"-Neues Deutschland, the party newspaper, has been filled with glowing reports of consumer production and has chided factories that continue to turn out shoddy goods. Centrum, East Berlin's giant department store, now refuses to give full payment to state factories that deliver inferior merchandise...
...refrigerators last year, for example, compared with only 191,500 ten years ago. But quality has remained at a low level. Except for optical goods and such choice export items as fiber-glass boats and camper iceboxes, nearly every East German product, from chewing gum to paint, is inferior to its Western equivalent. Distribution is bad, and shortages of even items like toilet paper are chronic. People still line up for such things as fruit-grapefruits are sold only to diabetics. Shoppers often return home emptyhanded. "You always walk around with a pocketful of money," says a Leipzig woman, "because...
...even with these advances, Radcliffe athletics still occupy a distinctly inferior position. And the successes of Radcliffe athletes, achieved despite the severe limitations of the department, grow in magnitude when viewed in light of the handicaps of being an athlete at Radcliffe...