Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cloninger's first group of alcoholics, about 25% of the total, tended to drink heavily before the age of 25, had bad work and police records and met with little success in treatment programs. Drinking was a habit they seemed to pick up on their own, with little encouragement from friends or other influences. When Cloninger checked how often alcoholism appeared in the sons of men who fit this description, he found it surfaced nine times as often as in the general population. This variation of the disease, Cloninger concludes, is heavily influenced by heredity. Because it appears primarily...
...boardinghouse. Many of these recipes were hers; others were suggested by Claiborne's friends and colleagues. Dishes range from soul to stylish Creole. Among them are such classics as fried chicken and beaten biscuits, as well as what Claiborne bills as "nouveau Southern," charcoal-grilled stuffed quail. Too bad he couldn't resist cliched crowd pleasers like blackened redfish...
...Johannesburg neighborhood, sums up the animosity: INTEGRATION STINKS. In Bertrams, another working-class neighborhood of Johannesburg, a white woman who lives on a street whose residents are mostly black, colored or Indian, voices a typical complaint. "If they lived one family to a flat, it wouldn't be so bad," she says. "But there are so many that now I can't sit outside...
...especially frustrated by the Consarc case because the technology breach was potentially devastating and perfectly legal. Consarc even managed to persuade the British Trade Ministry to insure the project for $11 million. Growled Stephen Bryen, who heads the Pentagon's export-control program: "This was an instance of really bad licensing by the British. It was an absolutely squalid case...
...proposal that included a three-month freeze on COLAs for all Government pensions and Social Security recipients. Though Senate Republicans liked the idea, their Democratic colleagues balked. "There was no stomach among Democrats for cutting Social Security," said an aide. "The view was 'It looks easy, but it's bad policy and bad politics...