Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sick of sincerity in rock 'n roll. I'm not talking about the kind of sincerity that inexorably permeates your auditory system every time you listen to some vintage Stones or early Dylan or bluesy Led Zep or down-and-druggy Velvet Underground or Janis Joplin on a real bad day. You'd never catch me bitching about that because that is what rock 'n roll is all about, regardless of what Eurythmics or the Pet Shop Boys or any other ice pop syntho-technocrats might think...
...Bills' ground-hugging offense has been anchored since 1986 by Jim Kelly, a rugged quarterback who thrives on bad weather and tough downs. First drafted by the Bills in 1983, Kelly signed with the U.S.F.L.'s Houston Gamblers. He has become an effective field general who oversees the hard-charging attacks of running backs Thurman Thomas and Robb Riddick. The style is just what Levy, a quiet, scholarly helmsman who holds an M.A. in history from Harvard, wants for the Bills. "We're not going to try dazzling people by filling the air with footballs," he says. "Statistics show that...
...delighted when he became Secretary-General. He is a very well- qualified person and extremely intelligent man, who knew the job very well, a very quiet extremely self-effacing man. He spent the sort of wilderness years from 1982 to 1987, pretty bad years in the U.N., as the only negotiator on Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, Western Sahara, Cyprus and a lot of other things, and he established a position of great respect with all the different antagonists in all these situations. When the international climate changed and the outburst of common sense began to take place...
...court, a key consideration will be the legal principle of stare decisis, the policy of standing by settled points of law. According to this doctrine, even if Roe v. Wade were seen by the Justices as a bad decision, revoking it after 15 years might be considered too politically and socially disruptive. However, a majority of the court, including Justice Kennedy, has already shown a willingness to re-examine well-established law. Last term the five conservative Justices stunned the legal community by voting to reconsider Runyon v. McCrary, an important 1976 civil rights decision. "This suggests a court where...
...buyout aroused anxieties even in the investment community, where some executives feared that the Johnson-initiated scramble would swallow up too much of the available money for deals and, moreover, give mergers and LBOs a bad name. "This is the sort of excess that investment bankers have worried about for years," said economist Robert Reich of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, "because it so clearly exposes the greed and rapaciousness of so many of these takeovers." Martin Weinstein, managing director of Kubera, a Wall Street arbitrage firm, concurred: "Do I sense fear? Yes. At some point there...