Word: badly
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...credulousness of voters is perhaps best mirrored in their acceptance of the word `liberal' as an insult to Dukakis. "Conservativism is faddish, and people have begun to say liberalism is bad and it stuck," he says...
...League, the difference between a winning and losing season is not great. Take Harvard's year. Two bad snaps (Cornell, October 8), a lethargic start (Dartmouth, October 15) and two interceptions and a fumble (Princeton, October 22) were all a champion needed to become an ex-champion...
...entire generation of Americans run the risk of knowing no other leaders than George Bush and Ronald Reagan. They are being taught that "liberal" is a dirty word, that government is bad and that style matters more than substance. Michael S. Dukakis teaches us the opposite. He is an intelligent man, with a compassionate heart, a strong leader who has led his state to economic recovery even as he ensured that it would care for its needy. He instituted an innovative policy for getting people off welfare, he led the passage of universal state health care, and he has proven...
...That I'm slow to anger. After ten years of being a chief executive, I've developed a certain inner calm and steadiness about me. It's not a bad resource, by the way, to have as President. If you get angry every day, you're going to be a real risk. I think it's an asset to be steady and a unifier. Incidentally, that quality stood me in good stead in the primaries...
...surface, the news from the Commerce Department looked bad. Showing the effects of a still high trade deficit and this summer's drought, the U.S. gross national product expanded at an annual rate of only 2.2% in the third quarter, down from 3.0% in the previous three months and the weakest performance in nearly two years...