Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Snaporaz seems good-naturedly inclined to dismiss this manifest lunacy as an extreme example of the illogical, though often charming, behavior of the weaker sex. Soon, however, he is spotted by a woman, and she incites her cronies to violent retaliation against male sexual oppression, embodied in Snaporaz. Through a gymnasium bursting with women lifting weights and practicing testicle kicks he rushes, down into the fiery furnace below...
Last week's merger was only the latest in a long line of financial couplings for the wily Weill, who started on Wall Street as a messenger in 1956. He opened his own firm with three partners in 1960 and then began taking over older, but weaker, investment houses. In 1979 he acquired Loeb Rhoades, Hornblower & Co. in what was then Wall Street's largest merger...
...Division B, Erica Schulman reached the semis, defeating Eli captain Natalya Smith, 6-2, 6-1, before bowing to Princeton's Susan whitney in three sets. Meanwhile Martha Roberts got past a tough Princeton opponent in the first round, but then faltered against a weaker Dartmouth player...
...schedule meets with the top clubs if we can because we want our swimmers exposed to the top competition. We don't want them to fear the stronger teams or laugh at the weaker ones, but instead look upon each and every meet as a challenge, the opportunity to improve. Our entire staff and the parents of team members are dedicated to providing the swimmers with the chance to become first-class swimmers." Bernal says
...carry food. The roots of pair bonding were set; the old pattern of annual random coupling was obsolete. This amalgam of nature and nurture brought an endless mating season, happier hominids and, of course, more children-the Darwinian key to survival. Lucy and Co. may have been smaller and weaker than many of the animals they encountered, but when it came to reproducing, they were champions. That, suggest the authors, is why they and their kind prevailed. And it is why their all-too-human descendants are upright citizens today. -By Peter Stoler