Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff...
Gerald Rafshoon, the President's image maker, explaining why Carter's popularity has diminished: "I've done a bad...
...bad news that business has been reporting is inflation. So we find Government spokesmen telling the people that the real villains in this inflation story are the businessmen who are raising their prices and the labor unions that are raising wages. When any Government tries to eliminate inflation by controlling wages and prices, what it is really doing is asking all of us to suppress the bad news that it has printed too much money. The reason we have inflation is that since 1967 the Government has caused the money supply to grow three times as fast as the goods...
Claman says that "Linda has always lived on the edge of danger. If she has money, she'll spend it on satin disco pants or gifts for her friends. If she doesn't have money, that's O.K. too. I suspect that Linda wouldn't feel bad if no more acting jobs came up. She'd figure she could get a job working at the corner service station...
Author Geoffrey Wolff tried to capture his own outlandish grifter of a parent in his first novel, Bad Debts (1969). In The Duke of Deception he tries again, this time discarding fiction and giving the facts a chance. They are colorful but not, at first glance, terribly consequential. Arthur Samuels Wolff, nicknamed Duke for his noble pretensions, was neither famous nor accomplished, except at the art of running up unpaid bills, and even that skill deserted him at the end. To Geoffrey and his younger brother Toby, their father's life was a matter of putting on heirs...