Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many thought him. But, more important, was the Hasty Pudding Club, generally open only to those whose upbringing beckoned their selection. Only Reed's talent merited him consideration. The Hasty Pudding Club needed a lyricist for its annual theatrical production and the quality-minded producers knew Reed was the superior choice. They bestowed upon Reed the honor he envied most during his Harvard career...
Reagan named Clark a superior court judge in 1969, prompting a public uproar because Clark had dropped out of two colleges (Stanford and the University of Santa Clara) and out of Loyola Law School in 1955. He passed the bar exam only on his second try, yet Reagan promoted him twice more, to the California supreme court in 1972. As a justice, Clark was meticulous and efficient. Says a former law clerk: "He spent a lot of time streamlining the language in his opinions, to get rid of the 'thats' and 'whiches' and anything else superfluous...
...policy was adopted, significant levels of inflation and lower than expected rates of long-term growth in capital values have reduced the purchasing power of endowment income. This problem is not unique to Harvard but is faced by all similar institutions and, in fact, Harvard's performance has been superior to that of most other institutions. During this same period, however, interest rates have been at generally high levels and the current income earned by the endowment has been at a higher level than expected. The success of this income distribution policy and the effects which inflation has upon...
...fact, Pittsburgh, a city that has often been maligned, would be a better bet than any of those popular choices. Cleveland would be worth serious consideration. By some counts, Chicago is superior to San Diego as a place to live...
...anybody else, that the post-World War II U.S. had got caught up in a compulsive competition for status. The proof came in The Status Seekers (1959), a dissection of those Americans who, as the author put it, were "continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming." Since that happened to include just about the entire U.S. population, the great status game, once focused, provoked a great many fears that it would damage the egalitarian ideal and hasten the evolution of sharp class lines. What none of the fearful saw was that, given...