Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...League, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and other weaker conferences could find themselves short a bid to March Madness...
Speaking to one another in whispers, the hostages listen to Buckley's moans as he grows weaker, and finally delirious. On June 3, Buckley squats on the tile floor believing that he is sitting on a toilet seat, and food fantasies fill his head. "I'd like some poached eggs on toast, please," he mumbles. "I'd like an order of pancakes." That night Buckley starts making strange grunts and the others realize they are hearing the rattle of death, and a guard comes and drags Buckley's body away. Anderson's first letter to his family contains his last...
...think the problem derives from conditions that do not allow the Russian character to express itself. The Russian character is no weaker than the American character. We also have people with a flair for business, but, of course, in the matter of entrepreneurship, some of your executives have made quicker progress, thanks to entrepreneurship itself. We only started talking about socialist entrepreneurship in the past few years, thinking it a possible way out for ourselves. "Come on," we said, "move and think faster, and you'll get more profit for your enterprise...
...seed the weaker conference teams against the elite in the nation and showcase the slaughter on national television. You've done it again this year, sending the Ivy's sacrificial lambs, Princeton, to be destroyed by the Georgetown Hoyas Friday night on national television in Providence. It's only a matter of time...
...committee members think that Harvard and St. Lawrence play in a weaker conference because they don't have a sufficient number of dates to play squads from other conferences...