Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when it appeared in 1984. A Woman Named Drown is not going to remind anyone of Anna Karenina. On the other hand, Powell's new book picks up smoothly where its predecessor left off, which is not, given the level of skills evident throughout Edisto, a bad place to begin...
...their soil, some West European leaders hedged on the decision to allow additional arms to be based in their countries. Now, fearing a Soviet attack with conventional weapons, some of these very same politicians have turned around 180 degrees to say that nuclear warheads may not be such a bad idea. If our NATO allies cannot decide what position to take, then the U.S. must take a stand on its own. We should start working toward nuclear disarmament instead of just talking about it. Western Europe must begin to accept responsibility for a greater share of its defense...
...breast cancer should probably drink less. Will such a lukewarm warning have any effect on behavior? Probably not. Interviewed in a Washington singles bar, Therese Gallagher, 23, a student from New York City, said she would continue to down six drinks weekly. "I don't think about the bad things in life until something happens," she explained. If she drinks wine, though, she may not have to worry: the Harvard study found an increased risk of breast cancer only for beer and hard liquor...
...FSLIC back to being merely broke; last year the fund was $6 billion in the red by normal accounting methods. Normal accounting, however, has long since gone by the boards in managing the ugly thrift crisis, which after years of alarmed attention is still getting decidedly worse. So bad is the problem, warns Lowell Bryan, a director of the McKinsey & Co. management-consulting firm, that "our entire credit system has become unsound...
However daunting the task of working for an entire summer may be, though, remember that after graduation the scene will be even bleaker. For the time being, one must make the best of a bad situation...