Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepared for that grind, Ferraro deferred in most matters to the vastly superior campaign expertise of the high-powered Mondale staff. When the week began, she was encamped in a 35th-floor Meridien Hotel suite, down the hall from her running mate, and her principal day-to-day operatives were mostly Mondale transfers. "I have these wonderful men who push me in and out of places," she said, moments after one of her new aides had guided her into a 40-minute meeting with TIME editors and correspondents. The ferocity of a vice-presidential candidate's schedule, she quickly...
...team into the Olympics, the team gained their birth through the back door. South American soccer was dominated last year by Brazil, who swept through the qualifying rounds undefeated. Chile qualified for the Olympics over two other teams with identical 1-2 records by virtue of its superior scoring and defense records...
...protégé of the late Senator Hubert Humphrey, Lord, 64, was appointed to the federal bench in 1966. He has been a hero to environmentalists since the mid-'70s, when he presided over a case involving charges that the Reserve Mining Co. had been polluting Lake Superior. Lord was eventually removed from that case after a higher court accused him of "gross bias" against the company. In another case that had ecologists cheering, the judge refused to permit a trapping season for Minnesota's Eastern timber wolf; the decision caused considerable upset among farmers, who maintained...
...superpowers consider talks about controlling weapons in space, the question arises: Which side is ahead? In antisatellite (ASAT) technology, the Soviet Union already has a crude ground-launched system that can destroy satellites orbiting at relatively low altitudes. But the U.S. is on the verge of developing a far superior system. As for the Star Wars idea of using ASAT technology as part of a ballistic-missile defense that would attempt to intercept enemy missiles before they can deliver their nuclear payloads, the U.S. has a solid lead in the infrared guidance that would be used...
...presence of a foot-square block of ice in space at 500 miles. The F-15 can get airborne, launch its rocket and intercept a satellite within ten minutes. Concludes the congressional Office of Technology Assessment: "The U.S. air-launched ASAT weapon now undergoing testing is clearly technically superior to the present generation of Soviet ground-launched ASATs...