Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years now, reporters have verbally manhandled the President, leaping and shouting for attention, then muscling the victim up front as if he were an inferior intellectual adversary. Before Reagan walked on the stage at his first televised press conference last week, he established a barrier between him and the 300 journalists. It was a simple device. Through Press Secretary James Brady, he outlined rules of behavior requiring the questioners to remain in their seats, raise their hands and stay silent until recognized. Reagan presided. The press...
After a pleasant and uneventful trip down to New York City, land of dreams and the midnight bagel, the Hoopsters just as pleasantly and uneventfully dispatched an inferior Barnard squad 75-31, beefing up their season's record to 5-11. When it rains, it pours, particularly for the cagers...
...unable to clarify her complaint about today's novel. Given that failure, her indictment rings empty. Nevertheless, she is sure the modern novel lacks serious purpose. Without evidence, she convicts a villain. Her book becomes a diatribe against Henry James who, she believes, singlehandedly created a new and inferior brand of fiction, "the pure novel." "When you think of James in the light of his predecessors," she writes, "you are suddenly conscious of what is not there: battles, riots, tempests, sunrises, the sewers of Paris, crime hunger, the plague, the scaffold, the clergy..." And most of all, she is convinced...
unprecedented predicament. After decades of virtually absolute security beneath the American nuclear umbrella, the members of this alliance will soon be inferior to the Warsaw Pact in many crucial areas of military power. NATO will have to find the will and the resources to limit the duration of this perilous inferiority, or risk being defeated from its own underbelly, the source of its raw materials. Free of bullying and insensitivity, Washington must inspire, urge and cajole other NATO nations to make the decisions that will be neither straightforward nor easy...
...industrial sector that would spew out exports for Western markets and earn hard currency to repay Poland's debt and raise its standard of living. The plan backfired in the mid-1970s when Poland, hampered by mismanagement, rising energy prices and a Western recession, could not sell its inferior products abroad...