Word: inferiors
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...President and many of his aides believe, the U.S. is distinctly second best. Many defense experts think the Administration exaggerates both Soviet strengths and American weaknesses. "Neither side has unequivocal superiority," says former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. "It is a mistake for the President to describe our position as inferior...
...father off on the job? They cannot, as Virginia Woolf observed, "run about the streets." The options are limited, and so far imperfect. These days, what Woolf called "that deepseated [male role] desire, not so much that she shall be inferior as that he shall be superior" may have moderated into an awareness that a different equation is wanted. Finding and holding the balance, however, requires some acrobatic skill. It also demands flexibility and a good deal of resilience...
...that you need to take a hard look at Hirsch's point. The moment we begin to draw lines, separating the gays and the ugly from the rest, we take the chance of a "crackdown involving repression" of civil liberties and basic rights. By drawing lines we create an inferior class, and by applying "negative social pressure" to that class we begin to stir up a public furor that may lead to a consensus anti-gay, and anti-ugly opinion. Only such a consensus opinion will in fact prove effective in combating the pervasive influence of the gays, the ugly...
...worrisome enough when President Reagan described the U.S. nuclear arsenal as unequivocally inferior to the Soviet Union's. Last week, during a dinner with reporters, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger went his boss one better with some nuclear scare talk that was even more worrisome. "Soviet missiles," Weinberger declared flatly, "are now more accurate than ours...
...Brewing Co., currently the third largest brewer, has a shaky grasp on that rung. Once the largest selling beer in America, Schlitz lost that position in the 1950s to Budweiser, then lost even more ground in the 1970s when it changed to a faster brewing process that yielded an inferior brew. Schlitz later returned to the original formula, but it has yet to win back all its beer lovers...