Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President in recent history has been as successful as Ronald Reagan in the presentation of self. By now, with his actor's "naturalness" and with the superior technology available to him, Reagan has probably overtaken his role model, Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is appearance we are talking about, not substance, but in the age of TV and Reagan, appearance has just about superseded reality in political importance...
...recalls that a superior attempted unsuccessfully to carry out a scheduled meeting. "It just didn't work," says Chayes...
...document from beginning to end without falling asleep, it needs work." Simple, direct statements should be avoided at all costs. For example, "The sky is blue" is impossibly straightforward; any associate worth his salt will quickly convert it to "The sky generally appears to be blue." His more experienced superior will render the statement "In some parts of the world, what is generally thought of as the sky sometimes appears to be blue." At which point, a senior partner will have a base to build...
Then it became evident where Bart Smart had gone wrong. Maybe he had been thinking of the character the Bulldogs had displayed by never giving up during their eight straight losses; more likely, he was referring to the superior character all Yalies develop by taking 36 courses instead of Harvard's measly...
When all the pre-Game hoopla is pushed aside. Harvard fans will be thinking of their team's vastly superior talent and record. The Elis will more likely be leafing through the part of their five-dollar programs that tells of The Game in past years--of the nationally ranked, undefeated 1931 Harvard team that Yale shut out, of the 5-3 Elis squad that trampled (35-0) on a 7-1 Crimson team in 1973, and even of the 1979 Harvard team, not much different from this year's Yale squad, that came down to the Bowl with...