Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Notre Dame and Army finished second and third last year, but they have grown considerably weaker. The Cadets have two runners returning who finished in the top ten last year, but both of them -- Jim Warner (third) and Robert McDonald (tenth) -- have been hobbled by injuries this season...
...taxi squad (the editorial board) is weaker than ever, and if we don't get some new sportswriters in a hurry we will be 21-point underdogs when we go into our game with the Yalie Daily in two months...
Georgia's lack of party registration and the absence of a Republican primary hurt Arnall the most. With Callaway unopposed, some 75,000 to 100,000 Republicans were able to vote in the Democratic primary for the supposedly weaker candidate, Maddox...
...personal-injury lawyers doubt that individual engineers need be overly alarmed about the new legal risks, which are still mainly aimed at manufacturers. Manhattan Lawyer Harry H. Lipsig foresees suits against engineers in only two general situations: 1) where the manufacturer has gone out of business, or is financially weaker than the engineering firm; 2) where the plaintiff finds the engineer in a more convenient jurisdiction than the manufacturer, as when a U.S. engineer designs a machine that is then built abroad...
...bottling are being automated, national-brand chains are muscling in on traditional local markets. Wine in cans, paper cartons, even greenish plastic bottles, which make the stuff look like motor oil, is being test-marketed. Distribution is still fragmented among 12,000 individual bottlers, but a shake-out of weaker firms seems assured...