Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oldtime pol. There are no cases of his grabbing a man by the lapels and demanding his vote, but at last he abandoned his "I understand your problems" approach to a wavering legislator. He kept up the pressure, in the language of the cloakroom-"I need your vote bad...
South Africa has long presented a dilemma to U.S. companies: profits on loans, sales and investments in the land of apartheid can be high, but so can the costs in bad publicity. Last week the spotlight fell on two companies that had reacted to the dilemma in widely contrasting ways. In New York, Citicorp, holding company for the U.S.'s second largest bank. Citibank, let out the word that it had stopped all lending to the South African government and government-owned companies. In New Haven. Conn., Olin Corp., the owner of the Winchester Group, which...
...value of the yen has appreciated a heckuva lot more than they have raised their prices. In the U.S., we have to take a hard look to make sure that we are not victims of our own desire to continue on a free-trade course. Any alternative would be bad for the U.S. and bad for the world, but I don't think the game should be rigged against...
...competition for grades look trivial," Turow says. "Performance in class is no longer important; it's who made you an offer and flew you down to Washington that becomes the new status, and some people crave it. People will back-bite, and go interview with law firms and say bad things about people they know...
...with the family vary from warm and cordial to very rocky. One or another of my less tolerable uncles always seems to descend on us for days, leaving only after communication between him and my father has degenerated to muttered threats and growling. From all these relatives, good and bad, there come the endless rounds of the same questions. Why do you go to Harvard? Isn't it Radcliffe? Do you really live in co-ed dorms and is it fun? Yes, it is really. And to be perfectly honest, I don't mind the litany half as much...