Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that America's principal allies, whom it is sworn to defend, are separated by oceans from the U.S., are uncomfortably close to the U.S.S.R. and are reluctant to bear their share of their own defenses. The other factor is that the conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact are numerically superior to those of NATO. Thus the U.S., in its role as protector of Western Europe and Japan, has fallen back on its nuclear weapons as an equalizer for its disadvantages in geography, conventional forces and manpower...
...contracts amounting to more than $20 million.) But they are growing used to grand sums, not to mention outlandish arbitrations. Mike Flanagan, the Baltimore pitcher, submitted a figure of $485,000 and then found out that the Orioles' recommendation to the arbitrator was $500,000. Deferring to their superior judgment, Mike instantly gave...
...discovered distinct sex differences. While the verbal abilities of the males and females hardly differed, twice as many boys as girls scored over 500 (on a scale of 200 to 800) on mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14 to 1. The conclusion: males have inherently superior mathematical reasoning ability...
...fascistic reputation. It was the Best and the Brightest, after all, who brought us Viet Nam. For a long time, many of the world's young fell into a dreamy, vacuous inertia, a canned wisdom of the East persuading them - destructively - that mere being would suffice, was even superior to action. "Let It Be," crooned Paul McCartney. Scientific excellence seemed apocalyptically suspect - the route to pollution and nuclear destruction. Striving became suspect. A leveling contempt for "elitism" helped to divert much of a generation from the ambition to be excellent...
February 28, 1982: The clock was winding down, and the Harvard women's hockey team was training a superior Princeton squad, 4-2, in the final of the Ivy League tournament at Dartmouth. Hanover's deep-freeze was seeping into Thompson Arena, where most of the 5000 seats (all green) were empty, the rink announcer listed the Tigers' scoring in a voice like that of HAL the computer in "2001", and the few Dartmouth students who wandered by were decidedly pro-Princeton ("We can't root for Hahvahd"). And in the waning minutes, Princeton winger Kelly O'Dell pumped...