Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foolish to deny that Do I feel terrible about that. Will no it's important for this school to have some women here. I would not have liked to have been hired just because I was a woman, I would not like to feel that somehow I was inferior to my peers. But to have that taken into account when they were looking at me, and being able to say. "Oh, yeah and she's a woman too, and that's nice, because that will be helpful with our women student, and with providing a women's perspective." It doesn...
...neoclassical economist might point to the market, saying that people in the underdeveloped nations obviously want to read about Farrah Fawcett, Both why should they (or anyone, for that matter) want to? And one gets into a discussion of inferior psychological self-images in underdeveloped countries fostered by "Western news imperialism." There is also an economic aspect underdeveloped nations depend on Western satellites for communication and on computers in Western countries to manipulate duta which is sent out of the country and then back in (much as the English shipped cotton to Manchester, and manufactured cloth back to India...
Some of his sharpest criticism was reserved for the shoddy consumer-goods industry. At a recent sales fair, Andropov said, officials had turned down 500,000 TV sets, 115,000 radios, 250,000 cameras, 1.5 million watches and clocks, and 160,000 refrigerators because they were of inferior quality. Such "intolerable" inefficiency, he admitted, causes "discontent among the population" and encourages "disgusting" black-marketeering...
...humans except for minuscule boatmen or field hands, toiling like ants in the distance. "The poor people are dirty," Constable explained, "and to approach one of the cottages is almost insufferable." Blythe groups Wordsworth with Constable in regarding the English countryside as Eden, polluted by the presence of inferior Eves and Adams. Even William Hazlitt, an essayist with a political conscience, thought rural England was full of louts. Pinched by poverty, exhausted by labor, "all country people hate each other," he maintained...
Considering the qualifications of former Secretary of the Interior James Watt and the new designate, William Clark [Oct. 24], perhaps the name of the agency should be changed to Department of the Inferior...