Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instituted by the Freshman Dean's Office will be a wonderfully effective means for breaking up-and-coming freshman partiers from the bad habits of beer drinking that currently impair the social graces of many upperclassmen. Future freshmen will be able to turn to more practical and productive drinking methods, thereby achieving higher blood alcohol levels than their predecessors ever dreamed of. The administration is taking the first step towards bringing the University's much maligned student social life into a new age. Let us all raise our shot glasses to their foresight and innovation...
Most American editors think Murdoch a throwback to journalism's bad old ways and argue that he can get circulation but can't get advertising. Murdoch counters that monopoly papers lack "writing flavor or character" and are complacently boring, which is why newspaper readership is declining. He thinks his own journalism is as new-fashioned as local television news, which in its more competitive world often emphasizes murders, fires and rapes. Murdoch, who knows all the tricks for skewering people, also admires CBS's 60 Minutes, which he once described as "sensational and unfair" in its methods, much like...
When Rather began the interview with an Iran-contra question, Bush came came out firing. He quickly accused CBS of bad faith: "I find this to be a rehash and a little bit, if you'll excuse me, a misrepresentation on the part of CBS, who said you're doing political profiles on all the candidates...
...been derided for changing his tune on issues like abortion and moving away from his centrist record. But even when he seemed to be fading in Iowa last fall, Gephardt never jettisoned his controversial trade amendment, despite heavy criticism. Like Babbitt, Gephardt is willing to bear the bad-news message that America's economic distress stems from deeper causes than the budget deficit alone. And he has shown an attribute that should not be underestimated: no candidate in either party surpasses Gephardt in dogged determination to get to the White House...
...Holly recalls, "and we was walkin' in the street. It was rainin', as a matter of fact. Not a warm night." Several ( days later Holly was still wandering around with her dying baby, being sent from hotel to hotel. "The place the shunt went in, his wound had gotten bad," she tells Kozol. "It was sunk in and you could see his skull. His eyes was sinkin...