Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even a mild slowdown in Europe's growth rate would be bad news for the U.S. economy. Washington has been counting on increased exports to Europe to help curb America's huge trade deficit, which hit a record $169 billion in 1986. But there is no assurance that Western Europe can keep up its present consumption of American imports ($59 billion last year), much less develop a greater appetite...
Worse yet, the U.S. military again looks like a gawky Goliath, beset by poor planning, faulty conception and just plain bad luck. Last week the Bridgeton, a Kuwaiti tanker now flying the Stars and Stripes, prepared to limp out of the Persian Gulf with a 30-ft. by 10-ft. hole in its hull caused by a mine that caught its American protectors unprepared. Jumbo military transports belatedly began ferrying minesweeping helicopters from Norfolk, Va. A Navy helicopter trying to land on the command ship of the task force crashed, with four Americans presumed dead. And the whole region...
...Once news of the arms sales broke, he misled the public. His press conference claim that no third country had been involved in the weapons shipments to Iran was far from a matter of a bad briefing. He knew Israel had been involved, but he was told to conceal the fact. At best, he became confused; at worst, he lied...
...glitches contributed to yet another bad week for the airline industry, which has recently been hit by a frightening succession of near disasters. The FAA launched investigations of the two incidents and a check of computer operations at the agency's 22 control centers in the U.S. What apparently happened at Nashua was that a technician performing routine maintenance on the electrical system accidentally cut off its power. The FAA has not yet determined what caused the electrical problem in Leesburg...
...fuss at Eastern drew attention away from Delta's continuing bad luck. At Los Angeles International Airport, a SkyWest commuter plane collided on a taxiway with a Delta 767. Both planes were damaged, but no one was injured. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. Meanwhile, two Delta jets had to make unscheduled landings: a 727 flying from Calgary, Alta., to Salt Lake City touched down in Great Falls, Mont., because of a pressurization problem, and an Atlanta-bound DC-8 returned to Las Vegas after it developed engine trouble...