Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech writer. Since he left Government in 1979, however, Shapiro has confined his political activity to voting. "When you see Government from the other side," he says, "you get a sense of why it is wonderful to do it once in your life. Doing it twice becomes a horribly bad habit...
...view of Hawaii Governor John Waihee, "It's not the origin of an investment dollar that makes it good or bad, but how it is invested." Takeovers that encourage U.S. competitiveness and efficiency and refurbish aging plants and equipment, in other words, are usually good, whoever spends the money. Likewise, the money that foreign companies invest in America is usually more important than the ultimate destination of any future profits. "To a worker in Chicago, does it make any difference whether the dividends go to New York or Tokyo? No," says Economist Edward Bernstein, a guest scholar at the Brookings...
...second novel, the former Bad Boy of Tennis again displays an intimate knowledge of the international tournament scene and an insensitivity to the niceties of plot and narrative. This time out the protagonist, Istvan Horwat, is an East European champion who conquers Wimbledon and women until a little orphan forces him to abandon the Egomania Open. She is Natasha Kotany, the daughter of friends killed in a plane crash. Under Horwat's avuncular gaze, the girl blossoms into a beautiful woman and a court phenom. One night she astonishes him, if no one else, by inquiring, "Haven't you understood...
Forget the Official Secrets Act. All that the Brits are going to catch with that one is a few harmless former spies eking out their pensions with ripping yarns about the bad old days in MI5. No, what they need over there is an Unofficial Secrets Act -- something that will stop the English underclass from converting squalid youthful memories into rude, shrewd, occasionally lewd movies of the kind that have lately been jostling away at one another -- and at our innocent colonial funny bones. As a group they form a kind of Disasterpiece Theater, more blithely brutal than typically British...
...worries range from natural calamities to man-made disasters. Fretting over the possibility of bad weather in Miami, organizers scheduled the Pope's outdoor Mass there during the morning, when showers are least likely. City officials in Los Angeles, contemplating the nightmarish prospect of the Holy Father's being trapped in his Popemobile in the city's snail-like traffic, ordered up a helicopter. "Even God can't negotiate the freeways," acknowledged Robert Spann, coordinator of the papal visit for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. In San Antonio, heat is a big concern; after planners of the outdoor Mass...