Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perpetual time-doers like Sy Johnson have created a self-image as a loser. They see themselves as inferior, inept, unworthy and unlovable...
...document for study but warned that it was not official policy. A considerable understatement: the report advocates nothing less than a policy of forgiveness toward practicing homosexuals and contains a strong condemnation of church theology. It specifically criticizes the U.S. bishops, the Vatican and Pope John Paul II for inferior scholarship and says that traditional church views are "practically meaningless and pastorally useless." The report offers a list of 54 proposals for church action, including the end of sexual-preference screening for parochial school jobs, adoption or foster care; admission of openly "self-accepting" homosexuals as candidates to be priests...
...competition we can strive for accommodation. If that hope is removed, they might be induced to lash out and use their enormous military capability. It would be suicidal but it is a possibility. That is why it is so counterproductive for the President to imply that we are militarily inferior to the Soviet Union. We are not, but this claim tends to weaken the confidence of our own people, shakes the foundations of our alliances and might induce the Soviets to make a suicidal miscalculation...
...unfavorable attention, the I.A.C.P.'s executive committee voted only to censure, not expel him. In the end, Murphy took the incident as further proof of one of his earlier volleys at the I.A.C.P.: "By your action, you summon up the image of police chiefs as members ol an inferior vocation in public service, fearful of dissent and debate and caught in a web of conformity. In this, you don't hurt Pat Murphy, but you bring ridicule to the calling of police management...
...showing has proved an acute embarrassment to the Kremlin. A high-level Soviet military mission traveled to Syria last month to assess fully the damage to Soviet-built weapons systems. In an unusual move, the official Soviet news agency TASS declared that all rumors that Soviet military equipment was inferior to the American-made arms in Israel's arsenal were "deliberately false" and a form of psychological warfare. Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin went out of his way to explain in a television broadcast that "more than 100 Israeli tanks were knocked out and the Syrians didn...