Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently Bush was a member of the conservative chorus warning that a bad arms-control deal was worse than no deal at all, as critics reminded him. "Setting an arbitrary time frame for arms-control treaties to be completed and signed is not wise," said Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...imminence of global warming and the danger of toxic wastes are settled, but scientists do not. Their disagreements about ecological threats make life uncomfortable for the activists, who fear that any apparent uncertainty will give policymakers an excuse for inaction. Critics respond that environmental false alarms have produced bad policy. While some naysayers are economists, industrialists and bureaucrats who view environmentalism as an irrelevant disruption of the real business of the world, others are sophisticated scientists who maintain that the U.S. should not risk its economic security to prepare for ecocatastrophes that might never come to pass...
...think that the toxic-waste mess is all the work of big bad industry. The average homeowner uses more pesticide and chemical fertilizer per acre of lawn than farmers do on the same amount of land. Cut back on these potent pollutants as well as nonbiodegradable detergents, cleansers and solvents. An attractive alternative to buying chemical fertilizer is to compost fallen leaves and lawn clippings, which now constitute 18% of all municipal solid waste...
...long, many U.S. companies have looked upon the ecology movement as bad for business. Putting scrubbers on smokestacks is expensive, they lament, and drafting all those environmental-impact statements can consume an enormous amount of time and resources. But while cleanup efforts cost money in the short run, they can eventually pay hefty dividends. As more and more firms are discovering, many environmentally sound practices can build up goodwill, win customers and produce a healthier bottom line...
...difference is most dramatic at the top. Homes in Connecticut that shot up to $2 million may now fetch only $1.3 million. It's not so bad in the real world -- three-bedroom homes in my sunny but unfashionable Miami neighborhood that rose from $65,000 to $85,000 over the past two or three years are still $85,000. But the notion that real estate prices will always go up, once common knowledge, like the notion that grapefruits can be eaten only in halves, is finally subject to doubt. After decades of steadily rising prices, we could...