Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since Harvard does not get another crack at the Quakers and must rely on weaker teams to beat them, the Crimson's chances seem strictly mathematics...
This year the team has already lost to the Quakers, and will not have another chance to face them. If Harvard is to defend its title, it must win the rest of its games, and then hope that Penn and the Tigers are upset by the weaker EIBL teams...
...flights, "suicide." TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast predicts that it would lead to a "breakdown of the system as we know it," and eventually to "pressure for subsidies and nationalization." Although few people are yet talking nationalization, the Ford Administration is contemplating legislation to force mergers that could bail out weaker carriers. Says Transportation Secretary William Coleman: "Somebody is going to have to take a look at the domestic airlines and decide how many there should...
...points out, modern Japan was largely created in the American image during the postwar occupation. Japan's deep-rooted psychological dependence on the U.S., in fact, is an extension into the realm of international relations of a chain of dependence and corresponding obligation between the younger, poorer and weaker and the old, rich and more powerful that runs from top to bottom in Japanese life. As Gibney compares and contrasts the two countries, he reflects on how our own industrial superpower-individualistic, given to philosophical absolutes and brusque manners-might profit from the example of a reluctant world power...
...match was especially upsetting for the Crimson, since it dealt the squad's Ivy League title hopes a serious blow. Barring any major upsets by the weaker Ivy teams, the team must now beat defending Ivy champion Princeton, whom it will face on May 9, and then the Tigers must beat Columbia if Harvard is to grab a share of the first-place laurels...