Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three months ending in June, slowed down a lot in July, chiefly because of a drop in food prices. On an annual basis, the index rose only 6%, the smallest increase since December. Unemployment also dipped, falling to 5.9% in August from 6.2% the month before. The bad news was that after months of steady improvement the nation's trade deficit in July came in at a scary $2.99 billion, nearly double the $1.6 billion gap in June...
...drop of 4.5% in oil imports. Most of the increase in the deficit came from imports of automobiles, machinery and other goods. Though the import flood is expected to ease off eventually, this year's trade deficit will probably hit a record $30 billion or more. The bad trade news sent gold prices up and all but kayoed a brief comeback of the dollar on foreign exchange markets...
...layman, the Farber case seems less a study in press rights and privileges than in how quickly law rallies around and sustains even a bad decision. Reporters often promise confidentiality to get a story; if they can routinely be made to break such promises in court they become an unwilling "arm of the law." So in practice some judges have ordered confidential documents sur rendered only if three tests are met: that there is a "compelling state interest"; that the evidence sought can be shown to be relevant ("particularity"); and that it cannot be obtained in any other...
...dramas of real-life doctors and their patients. Though marred by heavy-breathing narration and a worshipful view of American medicine, the first episode does present an affecting portrait of a surgeon at work. The show's closeup depiction of operations and lack of continuing characters ensure bad ratings, yet that didn't bother Silverman when he announced Lifeline last spring. "You've got to take chances," he told NBC's skeptical affiliates. "Lifeline could be the single show on any network this fall that changes the face of prime-time television...
...payments have been replaced by out-of-this-world purses, and country-club courtliness has been supplanted by locker-room epithets. With $12 million at stake this year on the men's tournament circuit and another $5 million up for grabs on the women's tour, a bad call by a linesman is worth money-not to mention a few choice words. However offensive the behavior of the modern mercenaries, other, more serious problems confronted the sport as it moved into its new National Tennis Center on the grounds of the 1939 and 1964 New York World...