Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER these initial meetings, workers will elect representatives to negotiate a contract. Rondeau said employees who do not sign union cards "in good faith" cannot chose future union representatives. What is good faith and who will decide it? If union leaders exclude some workers for alleged bad motives, they will essentially be weeding out those who disagree with them the most...
...Overall, it was a disgrace of a hockey game," Weisbrod said. "I hope that this wakes us up. It was bad for us that we let it get that...
News travels swiftly through one insect colony: delicious crystals have been found in a distant country. Eager to please its queen, a group sets out in search of edible treasure. When the sugar is found, each takes one grain and heads back -- except for Two Bad Ants (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95). Their mishaps with a spoon, a toaster, a cup of coffee and a human mouth are the subjects of Chris Van Allsburg's tale, brilliantly illuminated with renderings of a world seen from the underside, as two tiny protagonists scamper through its wonders and terrors on all sixes...
...that cholesterol can be either foe or friend, depending on the way it travels through the body. Cholesterol's sinister image derives from the fact that much of the substance is swept through the bloodstream by potentially damaging carrier particles called LDLs (for low-density lipoproteins). LDLs are called "bad" cholesterol because an excess of cholesterol carried by them can lead to the buildup of harmful deposits in the arteries. The other cholesterol carriers, known as HDLs (for high-density lipoproteins), are considered "good" because, far from being killers, they may actually play a vital role in preventing heart disease...
...cholesterol levels, is selling so briskly that some manufacturers are working around the clock to meet demand. Essentially, all these nostrums are aimed at reducing total cholesterol. But the hope is implicit that they will raise the levels of HDL, the good cholesterol, while lowering those of LDL, the bad cholesterol...