Search Details

Word: superiors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Ironically, the most impressive weapon in the war came from Argentina's arsenal: the French-built Exocet missiles, which sank the H.M.S. Sheffield. And in the final analysis, military experts agree, Argentina was defeated not by sophisticated weaponry but by the superior training, tactics and morale of the British forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just How Much Did the U.S. Help? | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...Clear majorities of the voters saw no difference between the two parties in their ability to handle the economy and foreign affairs, provide national leadership or even avoid nuclear war. On two questions, however, there was a strong public perception of differences between the two parties. Democrats were rated superior in helping the needy poor and older people. Republicans rated much higher than Democrats in "making sure the country is able to defend itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan: Looking Better | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...faces four questioners arrayed behind a judge's bench. That four on one, according to Moderator Bill Monroe, gives the lone guest the sympathy vote, but Kirkpatrick is not one to ask for sympathy. A former college professor, she has the manner of someone used to feeling intellectually superior to those she talks to, and probably must nudge herself not to talk that way to fellow diplomats or journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Goaded Fight Back | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

...Watergate sounds as if he were discussing an odd tribal custom: "That's true. The Americans take democracy very seriously " Many Europeans admired Richard Nixon as a statesman the last strong American President in the field of foreign policy. To them, Watergate was a profligate waste of superior leadership. It weakened America's force in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watergate's Clearest Lesson | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

Most doctors will not dispute Harrison's assertion that residents are overworked and overtired, but few feel that doctors are forced to become insensitive automatons. One exception is Dr. Martha Richardson, who was Harrison's immediate superior in gynecology at Beth Israel. While Richardson objects to Harrison's "imflammatory rhetoric," she to agrees that physicians often learn to treat patients as objects. She also points out, as Harrison does, that patients themselves must rebel against such treatment. Says Richardson: "We need a revolution in medicine, but we also need a revolution in the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Throwing the Book at Doctors | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

Previous | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | Next