Word: inferior
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...This discrepancy did not go unnoticed by admissions officers, who reported in 1948 that "our scholarship policy opens the door of opportunity at Harvard to those boys of inferior economic status who are at the very top in academic performance...
...Investigators in Florida, which is leading the inquiry on behalf of all 50 state attorneys general, believe that Ford and Firestone share blame. Says attorney general Bob Butterworth: "If they already knew they had these problems, why did they put an inferior tire on this vehicle? The problem you have here is lawyers and the marketing department overruled the safety recommendations of engineers...
...Philip Kuhn, a Harvard historian. "They held out for a while and then said the hell with it." That's a piece of history unlikely to be portrayed on film. Beijing even plans to promote the film abroad. "We must let foreigners know that China's hero is not inferior to 007," declares Wang Gengnian, vice director of China's Film Bureau...
When Chulada bought his $1,000 pair of decks a year-and-a-half ago, they were a musical revelation. "I spent two months learning how to spin on inferior turn-tables," he says, outfitted for maximum hipness in a plum-colored oxford, tight black trousers and two-day stubble. "Then when I tried the Tech 12s, I suddenly felt like a real deejay." Today, the former hippie haven of Haight-Ashbury, where the laid-back Chulada bunks with his brother, teems with hundreds of makeshift Mobys scratching out their living. Some, including Chulada, have made it to the coolest...
Child-development experts, however, consider these sterile tools inferior to more social and emotional activities such as talking with or reading to children. These specialists agree that the only thing shown to optimize children's intellectual potential is a secure, trusting relationship with their parents. Time spent cuddling, gazing and playing establishes a bond of security, trust and respect on which the entire child-development pyramid is based. "We have given social and emotional development a back seat," says UCLA's Tyler, "and that's doing a great disservice to kids and to our society...