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Word: inferior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...split, but like everything else all year, this team did it the hard way. Not content to rack the Cadets' inferior pitchers in the first game and then submit meekly to all-league twirler Craig Jones in the nightcap, the Crimson kept the good-sized Soldiers Field crowd around until the end, finally doing away with Jones using that rarest of of weapons in the Harvard arsenal, the longball...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Splits and Gains Title Share | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

American-made automobiles last week were again selling like Edsels. Mid-April car sales by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler dropped 32% from the same period a year earlier. Detroit continues to struggle with the dark reputation that it turns out cars inferior to those made by Japanese or West German manufacturers and that American workers are not sufficiently productive. But one Big Three plant belies such notoriety. The General Motors factory in Tarrytown, N.Y., one of the plants where the company assembles its hot-selling front-wheel-drive Chevrolet Citations, has earned the reputation of being perhaps the giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stunning Turnaround at Tarrytown | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

Speaking at the Kennedy School Forum to a crowd of about 300, Kilbourne showed slides to demonstrate that advertisements often cause women to feel inferior to society's concept of the model woman...

Author: By James S. Mc guire, | Title: Media Expert Fights Sex Stereotypes | 4/18/1980 | See Source »

Only the fast start and resulting 3-0 lead the Crimson held at the opening of the second period protected the squad through the next half hour of action as the vastly inferior Penn squad played over its head...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Crimson Stickmen Devastate Quakers | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...three couples onstage. The music, with its rich ornamentation, dark coloring and sprightly rhythms, captures just the same many-hued atmosphere as Epstein's staging. Unfortunately, it also introduces the only significant flaws in the Loeb production. The lyrics to Purcell's arias and choruses are often poetically inferior ot Shakespeare's verse, and sound rude, out of place. The stiff movements of singers from the Banchetto Musicale onto the stage--apparently to serve as a sort of Greek chorus as well as a musical one--has the same effect, clashing with the actors' finely choreographed and executed motions...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Out of Discord, Concord | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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