Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greenspan, who was President Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser from 1974 to 1977, is the first member of the TIME board to be named Federal Reserve , Board chairman. He will be remembered for his dry wit -- and one curious habit. Because of a sometimes bad back, he was occasionally prompted to stand while addressing fellow members, then to stretch out flat on his back on the meeting-room floor while others spoke. Most important, of course, Greenspan was esteemed for his sound economic judgment. "The views he shared with us were reflected in the stories we wrote about...
...Marshall Plan's rapid and measurable impact on European GNP soon led many economic planners to try similar schemes in the Third World. But bad politics and bad planning have crippled American attempts to replicate its European strategies elsewhere. Anti-communism has too often dominated aid choices in Africa and Asia, while commercial lending to Latin America has never allowed its regional economies the breathing space which the Marshall Plan created for Europe...
Harvard's higher profile in the Square's property market is the result of a new strategy worked out jointly by the Planning Office, the Office of Government and Community Affairs, and HRE both to combat the community's negative perception of Harvard as a bad landlord and to locate additional space to meet the University's growing needs, officials...
...arrive here each year? It's true that we take classes with other undergraduates, that we can eat meals in the residential dining halls with other students, that we have as much access to University facilities as others. But while walking a few blocks to supper is not so bad, knowing no one in the dining hall is no fun at all. Although most sophomores spend their time meeting new housemates, transfer students usually become friendly primarily with fellow transfers. It takes longer, perhaps only after becoming involved in an extracurricular activity, for transfer students to have a circle...
...complex project on royal geneology she submitted to the prestigious Westinghouse science competition. Studying the phenomenon of inbreeding in mankind as evidenced by several royal houses in the 19th century, Ueno came to the conclusion that "myths about inbreeding are exaggerated." Problems arise "only if there is a bad gene to start with." Although Ueno did not advance to the finals of the competition, she made a very respectable showing by finishing in the "honors" group, the round of 300 out of the initial...