Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever had-based on his cool performance in the second-floor Pentagon "tank," where the Joint Chiefs meet thrice weekly by themselves and confer each Monday with McNamara and Deputy Secretary Cyrus Vance. Wheeler is also at ease on Capitol Hill, even when that involves directly contradicting his superior. In recent testimony before congressional committees, Wheeler and McNamara have differed on several touchy issues...
...Aviation was the original selection of the 190-man NASA board to receive the Apollo contract in 1961, Webb changed his story under questioning by Senator Margaret Chase Smith. The truth was, he admitted to the committee, that the Martin Company had been the first choice because of its superior "technical information." But he and three of his assistants, he said, overruled the board's recommendation-logically enough-on grounds that North American had more space experience, and had submitted cost estimates that were 30% to 40% lower than Martin's. The biggest howl against Webb was raised...
Harvard went to court last January to compel the University Road Real Estate Trust to honor a 1956 option agreement to sell the building, located at 122 Mt. Auburn St. Earlier this week, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Edward F. Hennessy told the lawyers for both parties that he would shortly issue a ruling in favour of Harvard...
Judge Charles I. Taylor sent the case to the next higher court -- Suffolk Superior -- where, he said, Baird could begin to test the constitutionality of Massachusetts' birth control laws. The case will be heard June 5, Baird was arrested at Boston University last month after he handed out birth control devices to students. He also violated Massachusetts law here by explicitly describing birth control methods in a speech at Lowell Lecture Hall, although he was not arrested at that time...
...could agree with everything Sigal stated in his article, and I don't think you would find too many volunteers who wouldn't agree with him. But most of us do not take the detached, superior attitude that he takes. We are human beings with all the frailties and weaknesses of such, working with other human beings with the same qualities. But what we exchange on a personal level with each other as people is what makes this job worthwhile. We have got to be able to listen as well as speak. I don't think Sigal did much listening...