Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenant is presumed by them to be defenseless and right," Natale said. "And the owner is presumed to be wealthy and mean. We are assumed to be the bad guys...
...Property owners are just ordinary Joes who just happen to own a house," Ackerman-Eaton said. "It's naive for lawyers to say clients are good or bad based on whether they are tenants of landlords...
Unfortunately, heart disease is a hideously complex phenomenon. Diet is just one of a panoply of risk factors, which also include heredity, smoking, high blood pressure and obesity. Even the idea that cholesterol is "bad" is seriously flawed, since the chemical is produced naturally in the body and is vital to the functioning of human cells. It is carried in the bloodstream by two types of molecules: low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL). Too much LDL is harmful because it contributes to the accumulation of fatty deposits that block arteries, but large amounts of HDL are thought...
...with its checks and balances and feedback loops and delicate adjustments always striving for light and equilibrium, is like a mind. In this way of thinking, pollution is literal insanity (Bateson was also a psychologist). To dump toxic waste in a swamp, say, is like trying to repress a bad thought or like hitting your wife every night and assuming that because she doesn't fight back, you can abuse her with impunity -- 30 years later she sets your bed on fire...
...pessimism descends over a land haunted by shadows and fears, rumors and bad dreams, there is no obvious leader to guide Cambodia toward a more sane solution. The capricious Sihanouk, who ruled in the 1950s and '60s, stands as a symbol of better times. But his erratic behavior in recent months has baffled Cambodians and international observers alike as he has bounced between conciliation with Hun Sen and collaboration with the Khmer Rouge. Son Sann maintains links with a second guerrilla force whose disciplined units are outnumbered by troops preoccupied with smuggling and black-market trading. And the Khmer Rouge...