Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation got so bad that in March Mayor Edward Koch sent additional police underground to patrol subway trains between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. But the Magnificent 13 took up its underground patrols well before the mayor acted. The group's founder and leader is Curtis ("The Rock") Sliwa, 23, a night manager of the McDonald's restaurant at the corner of Broadway and 236th Street in The Bronx. Neatly turned out and ruggedly handsome, Sliwa became known as The Rock for his high school skill at brawling and an ability to go for days without sleep...
Despite Thatcher's well managed, energetic campaign, few experts were willing to predict assuredly that she would become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. There were simply too many imponderables. One unanswered question was whether the unions were in such bad grace with the majority of voters that the open support of bosses like Evans and Weighell for Callaghan would tip the crucial swing vote in favor of the Tories. The country's rapidly growing and increasingly restive black and Asian population could be a significant factor, even though less than half of eligible minority voters...
...election and a colleague of his on the Executive Council that runs the interim government. After the polls closed, Sithole declared the elections a thumping success; within a few hours, he was charging that "gross irregularities" had occurred. Sithole's opponents accused him of being a bad loser, since his party, a branch of the Zimbabwe African National Union, got only 14½% of the vote. Later, it was announced that his party had won twelve parliamentary seats and would qualify for two Cabinet posts in the new government. Most observers expect him to join the Cabinet...
NONFICTION 1. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Tarnower & Baker (1) 2. Lauren Bacall by Myself, Bacall (2) 3. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (3) 4. Sophia, Living and Loving, Hatchner (4) 5. Mommie Dearest, Crawford (5) 6. A Distant Mirror, Tuchman (6) 7. Linda Goodman's Love Signs, Goodman (7) 8. The Bronx Zoo, Lyle & Golenbock (8) 9. American Caesar, Manchester (9) 10. In Search of History, White
...readers, it turns out, mean something else by the bias they criticize: they mean the tendency of newspapers to "emphasize bad news over the good." They are convinced that this is done just to sell papers; they admit to liking to read crime news but feel a little ashamed in doing so. They think their home town is better than the newspaper paints it. Talking to his own readers in Dayton, Editor Rosenfeld found them questioning the editor's self-righteous conviction that he only reports a world he never made: "Readers see us as moral vigilantes . . . the voice...