Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been dominated by fears of inflation, higher interest rates and possible recession, despondency about the dollar and a widespread feeling that the Carter Administration was floundering in economic policy. By last Feb. 28, the Dow had sunk 26%, to 742, at which point stock prices had discounted all the bad news that could reasonably be expected, plus all that could unreasonably be feared, plus a bit more for good measure...
Almost everyone who approved of the series confessed that the production was not perfect; it was, after all, only TV-and three times better than that medium, with all its bad habits and commercial limitations, usually manages to do. Therefore (or so this argument unfairly implies) it is purist and precious, an ostentation of suffering, to say that the series was flawed, that it did not anguish stylishly enough before the abyss, over the race that went up the chimneys in smoke. The importance of the series was that, however imperfectly, it instructed millions, imprinting upon their memories an evil...
...other planes, perhaps for an hour or more, hoping for a break in the weather. Or headed for another city. Either choice would have been painful for nerve-racked passengers and costly for the airline. Yet the skipper of Flight 122 blandly announced over the loudspeaker: "The weather is bad on the ground in Chicago today, but we 'II be arriving on schedule." Then he headed the big jetliner toward the socked-in airport and made a routine landing...
...SHEEP WERE unhappy, and they baaaaed loudly, so Derek the Duck said he would establish the ACSR--the animals' committee to study rocks--and he would refer their complaints to the new body. So the ACSR met, and decided that the Aparkside system was indeed bad, and announced that someone, somewhere, somehow should immediately do something about it, or at least talk about it. And then they asked the Council of Owls to do something about...
Dean Fox yesterday said that the additions to the drug section were "advisory." He said the Faculty Council decided to insert warnings against bad drugs after it received reports that marijuana treated with PCP had been sold in the Boston area...