Word: rater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scopic knee surgery last November, the fact that Spend A Buck began his twelve-race career (eight wins) at Florida's Calder Race Course was a delight of its own. Henceforth, at least for a while, "a Calder horse" will no longer serve as racing shorthand for a second-rater. Both the owner and trainer are recent arrivals in the sport, both of Tampa, Fla. Dennis Diaz, who retired from the real estate and insurance businesses four years ago at 38, discovered "there's only so much fishing a man can do." With $12,500, which this industry calls...
...feel that Blacks student activities help to raise the consciousness of our fellow students to the economic and social inequalities stiff extant for Black people Further, these activities, rater than being parochial instill in us a sense of Black pride and create in all people a healthy respect for differences and individuality. Anthony A. Ball '86 Vice-President Black Students Association Kenneth Johnson '87 BSA Afro-American Cultural Center Liasion Darryl Parsons '87 BSA General Organizational Liasion Brian Stevens '88 BSA Third World Student Alliance Representative Timothy A. Wilkins '86 President Black Students Association
There has long been a tendency to repeat, without checking it against the pictures, Gauguin's irritable verdict that Pissarro was a good second-rater, "always wanting to be on top of the latest trend ... he's lost any kind of personality, and his work lacks unity." So although there has been no lack of Degas shows, Monet retrospectives, homages to Cézanne and museum tributes to Bazille or Caillebotte, Pissarro has remained less known-an irony, since, with his peculiar steadfastness and probity, he was the linchpin of the impressionist group...