Word: superiors
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...after he had promised to "take the politics" out of judicial appointments, Reagan named Clark a superior court judge in San Luis Obispo County without even consulting the local judicial committee. Reagan subsequently nominated him to the court of appeals and in 1972 to the prestigious state supreme court. Clark was an extremely conservative jurist, competent if not distinguished. Then, as now, he was willing to acknowledge his limitations and depend heavily on a good research staff...
...great interest: it is the first systematic museum show of this material in America. Art Historian Jack Cowart, who assembled it, wisely refrained from trying to cover everyone. Instead, he chose five "exemplary" figures, the most influential and (although his catalogue essay waffles on this point) the aesthetically superior ones: Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Markus Lüpertz and A.R. Penck...
...with fascination and admiration and resentment intermingled. A poll by the Los Angeles Times last spring found that 68% of Americans favor trade restrictions to protect American industries and jobs. The American trade deficit with Japan could well reach a menacing $21 billion this year. It results partly from superior Japanese competitiveness and products, partly from unfair Japanese barriers to trade, and partly from an overvalued dollar and undervalued yen. Most Democratic presidential candidates, including Walter Mondale, have courted the labor vote by urging new kinds of protectionism. A former Japanese ambassador to the U.S., Nobuhiko Ushiba, said in April...
...world looks at Japan through one lens, the Japanese see themselves through another. Japan is a global force with an insular mentality, a superior organism that still harbors the soul of a small, isolated land. Living on their archipelago in the "Pacific Ring of Fire," vulnerable as always to earthquakes and typhoons, virtually unarmed, without any significant natural resources, dependent on the outside world for oil and food, the Japanese have a hard time seeing themselves as any kind of threat. "In our history of 2,000 years," says Taro Aso, a member of the Japanese parliament, "this...
...cannot shake money out of empty coffers. This spring a report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education found that teacher training programs needed substantial improvement and that too few top students are attracted to the profession. While urging that all salaries be raised, the commission proposed that superior teachers be rewarded with merit increases, a concept traditionally opposed by both unions on the ground that such bonuses might be awarded unfairly...