Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world becomes more complex, it is more important than ever before that we do not oversimplify events abroad. Bad analysis inevitably leads to bad policy. Instead, we need to be aware of the deep historical forces at work in other countries. To ignore these realities or fail to understand them would lead us into taking actions that might be ineffective or irrelevant or even dangerous...
...Georgia couple that endorsed a detergent in a TV commercial were assaulted by angry telephone calls and letters denouncing them for having six children. All over the country, school budgets are being killed in tax revolts. That may be more an indication of disastrous inflation and a protest against bad educational systems than a specifically antichild gesture, but such refusals suggest something about a community's priorities...
...sluggish this year, imports are expected to decline. Exports should rise because the cheap dollar makes U.S. cars, jets, grain, and other goods bargains in international markets. Those factors should trim the nation's trade deficit from a horrendous $28.5 billion last year to a merely very bad $22 billion this year. But the dollar probably will remain weak for a variety of reasons: a surfeit of $600 billion in greenbacks is sloshing around the world as a result of inflationary excesses; foreign governments are weary of spending their own currency to support the beleaguered buck; and foreign moneymen...
...principle of majority rule. Yet, while all the ideas have flaws, Greenspan argues: "If the Congress does not respond to what is now in the process of occurring out in the grass roots, we will end up with a constitutional convention, and I think that would be a bad mistake...
...curious thing was that he had so little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...