Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bad for a guy who lost the Super Bowl for the Denver Broncos...
...bad for a guy who lost the Super Bowl for the Denver Broncos...
...commercial banks hold almost half of the $1.2 trillion in Third World debt. That debt is choking growth in half the world, and most of it will never get repaid. At the same time, both banks and savings and loan associations have made billions of dollars' worth of bad loans to the real estate and energy industries...
Sitcoms, too, are playing it safe this fall; the ambitious "dramedies" of the past few seasons have mostly been supplanted by old-fashioned gag comedies. That isn't necessarily bad. The season's funniest new show, NBC's Dear John, hardly advances the art of the sitcom, but it surely restocks it with human-scale humor. Judd Hirsch stars as a divorced schoolteacher gingerly exploring the single life. On his first visit to a singles group, he meets a sly assemblage of oddballs, including a group leader fixated on sex and a hilariously sleazy skirt chaser (Jere Burns doing...
...makes the Journal cumbersome, while some advertisers are said to be concerned that the new format allows readers to discard sections they prefer not to read. But these arguments hardly seem valid. The format makes the previously scattershot Journal more reader friendly and attractive -- and that can't be bad for business...