Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepchildren filed the $56 million civil suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan last year following von Bulow's acquittal by a Rhode Island Superior Court jury after a widely publicized nine-week trial...
...Superior. The supreme and arbitrary Power that British kings once wielded over their helpless serfs is now wielded by you over helpless undergraduates...
Loss of the Copper-7 has upset many family-planning experts. "In the past, inferior products have been pulled off the market," notes Dr. Louise Tyrer of Planned Parenthood. "Now superior products are being abandoned because of high insurance costs." The IUD has a failure rate of only 5% in the first year of use, she points out, in contrast to 19% for the diaphragm, l7% to 24% for sponges, 18% for spermicidal foams and jellies and 10% for condoms. But, observes Dr. Bruce Stadel of the National Institutes of Health, "a pharmaceutical company would have to be altruistic...
...especially Hudson, whose "Let's get out of here" response to every situation makes him a kind of audience surrogate. For Cameron, however, the Marines have another unstated use: "Their training and technology are inappropriate for the specifics, and that can be seen as analogous to the inability of superior American firepower to conquer the unseen enemy in Viet Nam: a lot of firepower and very little wisdom, and it didn't work...
...plethora of public records that local governments now store on magnetic tape for their own computers greatly widens the field for inquiring reporters. The Providence Journal-Bulletin has compiled a library of computer tapes that includes the record of every criminal defendant who has appeared in Rhode Island Superior Court in the past nine years, as well as the state's entire fiscal records for 2 1/2 years. With this data base, the paper has uncovered coercive tactics used by some canvassers in the state's mail-in electoral ballots and has revealed that a total of 6,033 arsons...