Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem seems almost too simple, and it is indeed tempting to argue that since Harvard attracts an exceptionally fine group of students to its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, graduate student teaching is not a bad thing...
Such lax hirings standards translate into shabby teaching. Last year, according to an Economics professor and member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Department hired five poorly qualified instructors to teach Ec 10. That's in addition to all the qualified TFs who are just bad teachers...
Given the bad feelings between Reagan and Ortega, easy concessions are not expected. "These people are in a war of propaganda," says a Honduran , official. "Neither side wants to be the one to give in." Still, the debate over bilateral or multilateral talks is more than mere posturing. The Sandinistas, who know that renewed bilateral talks will lend their regime prestige, argue that until the U.S. forthrightly announces its support for the Guatemala plan, it is not entitled to participate in regional negotiations. "Why should we let Reagan take part?" asks Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann...
...bad old days were just yesterday, after all. It was in 1978 that the Supreme Court upheld New York City's right to designate Grand Central Terminal a landmark, thus saving the beaux arts wonder from having a gargantuan 54- story modernist tower built over its waiting room. And it was a mere 20 years ago, give or take, that St. Louis razed 40 quaint blocks of riverfront warehouses; that Pasadena, Calif., tore up a fine commercial neighborhood to build a standard aluminum shopping mall; that Madison, Wis., let Burger King raze an 1850s stone house for its headquarters; that...
...Corleone's justice, saying "You never beat your wife." The Godfather answers: "She never gave me reason to beat her." The court's ruling, as certainly as the exchange in the movie, makes clear that a good wife fulfills her husband's needs and stays in line. Only bad wives get beaten...