Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many workers believe Harvard is not necessarily a bad employer, but no one doubts it is a very powerful one. Regardless of whether individual workers are dissatisfied with their pay, benefits or working relations--when individual concerns do arise they need to be addressed. While one worker against the Harvard administration stands little chance, the union is large enough to take...
...Black-and-White had a much more difficult time against Vermont. In addition to the Catamounts, Radcliffe also had to battle the bad weather conditions...
...river of blood" in the street. Deshawn Holly, 5, was hit with four bullets but miraculously survived. Stacey Childress, 19, was less lucky. Of the eleven people shot in the five- minute spree, Childress was the sole fatality. The presumed motive for the bloodbath: a drug deal gone bad...
...first, the strategy worked well enough. But then, as the subway rattled north toward Harlem, Arthur's demons returned. Even above the racket of the wheels, he could hear them sniggering at his fantasies of stardom, playing good cop-bad cop with his head. One voice demanded to be told where he found the gumption to strut his meager stuff before the same footlights that had illuminated the talents of Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight and Michael Jackson. A second and more kindly presence kept urging him to wriggle off the hook. The next stop would be his last chance...
...plot of Play It Again, Sam is a simple and perfect vehicle for Allen's shlemiel persona, here called Allan Felix. Felix's wife has just left him, and he bemoans his impossibly bad luck with women. His harried businessman friend Dick Christie (Nick Raposo) arrives with his flaky wife Linda (Lucy Soutter) to comfort him. They try to fix him up with dates until Felix realizes that he's fallen in love with Linda, and that through his relationship with her he's finally overcome his total lack of confidence with women. Along the way, Felix, a writer...