Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peculiar. Despite 800 million adherents around the world, the faith of the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an, the Muslim scriptures, has long been all but invisible in the U.S. More than that, it has been an object of misunderstanding and contempt. "Traditionally, there has always been a rather bad image of Islam in the West," says Ninian Smart, religion professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "In recent years," he adds, "that has been accentuated by the revolution in Iran and terrorism." Insists Dawud Assad, president of the U.S. Council of Masajid (mosques): "People call us terrorists...
Gorbachev has put the leaders of all those countries on notice that as the Soviet Union turns its attention and resources to perestroika at home, it is not going to throw good money after bad abroad. Pro-Soviet regimes will thus be forced to do some restructuring of their own. To some extent that means demilitarizing their economies and therefore their foreign policies. This has already caused strains with Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, who managed to miss two of Gorbachev's speeches during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union in Moscow last November...
...Whew, this drip gas smells bad...
...years, through good times and bad, the contras have been led by only one military commander: Enrique Bermudez, 55, a former colonel in deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. But peace, or at least the promise of it implicit in the 60-day cease-fire signed by the contras and Sandinistas in March, has triggered a power struggle that threatens not only Bermudez's leadership but also rebel unity. Unless quickly settled, the infighting could prevent further peace talks and leave the Sandinistas in an even stronger military position when the cease-fire expires at the end of this...
...hands, what can you do? Tyson, who earned $10 million from his last fight, made just that request to two policemen who approached him after he had scratched his brand-new $183,000 silver Bentley in a New York City fender bender. "I've had nothing but bad luck and accidents with this car," the boxer said. "You guys take this car, and keep it." After some hesitation, the cops accepted. Unfortunately, police higher-ups heard of the "gift," returned the Bentley and reprimanded the beneficiaries...