Word: badness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument that the real conflict is between religion and humanism is especially true. It's too bad the trend now is to judge by human standards instead of God's. People are prone to set standards for themselves that are too often influenced by greed, dishonesty, selfishness, etc., whereas God's standards are not affected by any of these vices...
...from cutting the defense budget, he voted to increase it to $141.2 billion, $18.5 billion more than Carter's original proposal. Said conservative Democrat Ernest Rollings of South Carolina to Kennedy as they left the Senate floor: "I saw you vote for that, Ted. You ain't so bad. There's hope for you yet." Other Democrats thought otherwise. Complained Budget Committee Chairman Edmund Muskie of Maine: "Like a good New England sailor, Kennedy has learned to tack with the wind." Kennedy did so, moreover, without explaining whether he wants to get the extra money for the Pentagon by cutting...
Kennedy runs a special risk, of course, and not only because he lost two brothers to assassins. Says Psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, state director of mental health in Michigan: ''The same charisma in Ted Kennedy that stirs some people to the good, stirs other people to the bad.'' In September, Jimmy Carter ordered the Secret Service to guard Kennedy. They now watch over him around the clock, three shifts of five or six agents each, all identified by a lapel button and an earplug linked to a walkie-talkie. When traveling, Kennedy is usually accompanied by Aide...
Brown is a good team, real good. Harvard is on a bad streak, real bad. Today's game could be trouble, big trouble...
Another have, Princeton (3-1), takes on the ultimate have not, Penn (0-4), but no one takes the Tigers too seriously as threats for taking the Ivy crown. It's not that the Tigers are that bad, but they have to play Cornell and Yale in the final two weeks of the season, and how can you take a team from the same city as ETS too seriously when it comes to sports...