Word: inferior
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Favored Hedge. Individual investors suspect that they have been neglected by brokers who are anxious to woo the big-block trades of the institutions. Individuals pay higher commissions than the institutions do, and many feel that they get inferior research service from brokers. Some also fear that the institutions profit from inside information not available to the small investor. The Equity Funding scandal this spring did nothing to allay that suspicion; some institutions got rid of their stock before news broke that an insurance subsidiary of Equity Funding had been falsifying its books...
...researchers found that Rulison cost a total of $11 million but yielded gas that would be worth only $1.5 million-if it were uncontaminated and of high quality. Unfortunately, the gas released by Rulison is chemically inferior to gas from conventional wells in the same field and contains excessive amounts of radioactive byproducts like tritium. The cheapest way to correct those faults, the AEC says, would be to mix one unit of the contaminated Rulison gas with up to 50 units of high-quality nonradioactive gas. But to do so would require an abundance of uncontaminated natural gas, which...
...many public schools of lower quality had only recently founded graduate programs-largely for reasons of status, not need. "To ensure their place in the academic sun," the task force said, such schools obtained more state funds and boosted their enrollments by a total of 10%. Moreover, since these inferior schools primarily turn out research scholars in overcrowded fields, the report forecast that the job market will become even tighter and that better universities will cut back their Ph.D. programs even further...
...psychiatrist, Dr. Chester M. Pierce '48, said that television is a crucial factor in mass media's casting blacks in inferior roles...
...Women are inferior to men in physiological performance," and "the imbalance between wages and productivity registers itself earlier among women than men." These remarkable statements were included in a Tokyo high-court decision upholding an earlier compulsory retirement age for women than for men. The case in question began four years ago when Miyo Nakamoto was discharged from her job as a draftswoman by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd. when she became 50, the firm's mandatory retirement age for women. Mrs. Nakamoto sued to stay on until 55, the age at which male employees must leave...