Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everyone is tired today and a lot of the guys, because we didn't know the match was going to be today, lifted yesterday, worked out really hard," Jamis explained. "It was a bad day for everyone...
...name of decent football, no team from that division should be allowed to participate in the postseason. The Los Angeles Raiders, Denver Broncos and company are giving mediocrity a bad name. These teams are positively bad...
...fight for RJR Nabisco, that seems to have happened in spectacular fashion. No matter how the battle turns out, the unseemly scramble for riches has, for the moment at least, given overreaching a bad name. In the end, the RJR brouhaha may turn out to be a useful testing of the limits: of greed, of debt, of dealmaking. The resulting outcry may prove an effective regulating device. "In its own way, the deal has been typically American, where nothing is in moderation, including the enormous selfishness of management," notes James Bere, chairman of Borg-Warner. "It's touched a nerve...
...rock of lawfulness and trust between companies and those who hold a stake in them. But when avarice grows out of proportion, cracks start to appear in the foundation. "Greed can be good," says M.I.T.'s Modigliani, when it spurs profitable and productive growth. "But it can also be bad," he warns, when it outpaces all other considerations...
...bad shape," Bonnie says, taking the child to her side. "We're going to have to sign you up for Social Security." But her lightness has an edge to it: this may be the day it gets serious...