Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, unless Lichtman in his superior moral state actually sent his $5 to Oxfam, he has no valid reason for skipping the fast. Nick Salafsky...
...frayed nerves in the region. Two months ago, thousands of Iranian troops stormed across the Shatt al Arab, the long-disputed waterway that lies between the two countries, and established a toehold in Iraq's Fao Peninsula, a desolate strip of land that juts into the Persian Gulf. Despite superior firepower, Iraqi forces have been unable to dislodge the Iranians. The Fao beachhead was established just as falling oil prices threatened to starve both Iran's and Iraq's military and civilian economies. The protracted battle for Fao could prove to be a critical turning point in the war. TIME...
...many people, of course, Harvard stands for the proposition that "intellectual activity" (read: the kinds of things that get you accepted at Harvard University) is superior to "physical activity" (read: the kinds of things people at "lesser" institutions do). If Harvard is based upon this proposition, as Kurzman suggests, it shouldn't be. There are already too many hierarchies at this school separating people into inferior and superior categories. Wouldn't it be simpler and more human to say that good piccolo players and Scott Fusco should excel at what they do and leave it at that...
Polaroid hopes that the Spectra will revive its instant-camera sales, which plunged from a record 9.4 million units in 1978 to 3.5 million last year as more and more shutterbugs turned to superior 35-mm cameras. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company says that with the advanced chemistry of Spectra film, the new camera will produce sharper pictures with truer color than did previous models...
...spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said the District Court charges were dropped because the case was under investigation by the Providence County grand jury, which considers felony charges for disposition in Superior Court...