Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bad. Your guy lost--he's outta there," one of them said with a certain degree of mocking joy as I reached for a Post...
...situation got so bad that by July the wildly-fluctuating Argentine currency (the austral) had fallen during the past year from a value of about $1.25 to roughly one-seventh of a cent. Every Monday morning, the banks were flooded with people desperately trying to change their fast-depreciating australs to U.S. dollars, the de facto national currency that is welcomed almost anywhere...
They lost because of stupid plays and bad luck. Watching their games turned into an exercise in blood pressure control...
Hard cases, an old saying has it, make bad law, and this one has all the ingredients to bear out that adage: a stubborn judge, two embittered parents and a child torn between them. Morgan met Foretich in 1981, while he was separated from his second wife, former model Sharon Sullivan. After a whirlwind affair, during which Morgan became pregnant, the couple flew to Haiti, where Foretich obtained a quickie divorce. But his marriage to Morgan broke up after only five months, scarcely a week before Hilary was born...
Moviemakers are among the loudest complainers. "Commercials cheapen the medium and put the audience in a bad mood before they see the film," says director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams), expressing the overwhelming reaction among producers and directors. A majority of theater owners still agree, refusing to turn their screens into billboards. "Our experience with commercials was very negative," says Gregory Rutkowski, a vice president of AMC Entertainment, which owns 1,700 screens across the country. "We tested them several times, and our customers told us that they won't stand for them. You can't underestimate the intelligence...