Word: badly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...miles northeast of Boise, destroyed 25 houses and businesses, including a resort lodge. Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus declared an extreme emergency to call in more than 300 National Guardsmen to help 9,000 fire fighters battling to control the burning land. Although the fires are not quite as bad as last year's, 462 million board feet of timber have been destroyed in the Boise National Forest alone...
Sununu puckishly allows, "I have been known to ask provocative questions." His bad-cop act has the President's support, but Sununu has drawn fire from Congress and has left some staffers afraid to voice unpopular advice in his presence. Many consult more easily with Sununu's own good cop, deputy to chief of staff Andrew Card. Colleagues were relieved when Card decided to stay at the White House rather than run for Governor of Massachusetts...
...lines were sabotaged. In Van Nuys, Calif., two striking Pacific Bell employees suffered injuries when they were bumped by cars crossing the picket lines. The drivers "got angry because we called them scabs," claimed Marisa Rotondi, a shop steward for the local union. "Things are starting to get pretty bad out here...
...often in real life things go wrong. And when that happens to soldiers and spooks, Clancy says, "very often you get hung out to dry. All those Marines who got blown up in Lebanon got hung out to dry. William Buckley, the CIA officer who got captured by the bad guys in Beirut, was hung out to dry. We do that a lot; it's probably the most despicable thing our Government can do. But it happens, and that's what I decided to write about...
...Real estate in Cambridge is a bad word and I am the spokesman for people who disagree with rent control," Walsh said. "This year of politics is a focus year on rent control. I think you'll see a lot of bitterness in the campaign [for City Council] before it's over...