Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look around and note the saturation points. American farming, which took so steep a tumble in the early 1980s, has recovered lately but only to a level where the surviving farmers look toward anxious stability, not flush times. Good news for American farmers and bad news factor each other out continually. Exports are rising, but the price of corn, for instance, is less than half what it was in 1982, and wheat has fallen 33% since 1980. The Wall Street Journal described the farm issue in a Jan. 8 headline: WHAT WAS A CRISIS BECOMES ONLY A PROBLEM. For every...
...American industries in the first years of the decade now begins to look hopeful, but here again the projected growth is severely contained. The nation's industries were running at more than 82% of capacity in December 1987. That's good. But consumer spending is decelerating. That's bad. The value of the dollar falls abroad. Good. More countries are becoming industrial giants. Bad. All of industry these days talks like an executive fitness center, in terms of slimming down and wising up. The brayings of protectionists suggest that the onetime home of swaggering competitiveness is beginning to see itself...
...Beanpot, bad teams win and good teams end up bringing their sleeping bags for the great camping trip known as the consolation game...
...some ways, writing a thesis is like a continual series of bad dreams from which you wake up, only to find yourself in another nightmare. I am trapped like a character in Nightmare on Elm Street, and my thesis is like Freddy Krueger, chasing me through my dreams. That's why I call my thesis Freddy...
...sure that the crew members were as surprised by the judge's decision as the rest of us. To imply that they are responsible for a bad decision is as ludicrous as it is unjust. Joan M. Hutchins...