Word: worst
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...into the campaign and the relationship as the two were winding up their triumphal six-day bus tour in St. Louis, Mo. The best hope they had of defeating a President who had just won a war was to turn the public's attention to what they called the worst domestic economy since Herbert Hoover. But as tens of thousands of people were gathering in the stifling morning heat outside the city library to hear how the Democrats planned to fix it, Gore was inside the Arkansas Governor's hotel suite persuading him to take a stand on a Balkan...
Rather, these learning centers are imbued with the mentality that customer knows worst. Where else but in higher education could a business charge $30,000 for its service and then have the nerve to turn around and tell you who's boss...
Rather, these learning centers are imbued with the mentality that customer knows worst. Where else but in higher education could a business charge $30,000 for its service and then have the nerve to turn around and tell you who's boss...
...understand how, it helps to know two facts familiar to every Baltimore fan. The Orioles have the third highest payroll ($80 million) in major league baseball. And they have the American League's worst record. That's the kind of capitalist contradiction that Fidel Castro loves to exploit. Dirt poor but sports crazed, Cuba boasts one of the world's richest lodes of baseball talent--and proved it in Baltimore, as its stars savaged Oriole pitchers for 18 hits. (Mercifully, the Cubans, who use aluminum bats at home, had only a month to train with wooden ones...
...series of focus groups with undergraduate women conducted in conjunction with the Michigan/Catalyst study, students were asked to describe what characteristics they associate with certain professions. Who fared the worst? Not lawyers but businesspersons, whom the women described as "greedy" and "self-interested." It's too early to draw broad conclusions from the focus groups, say the researchers, but that negative view of business is in line with the long-standing theory that "women are drawn to jobs with some kind of obvious societal utility," says Carol Hollenshead, director of the Center for the Education of Women at Michigan. "Medicine...