Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sensational front-page news story out of a personality story. The New York Times ran a front-page profile of a Miami bit-part actress. It also ran "day after" polls which reflect sensational responses to sensational stories, not stable public opinion. This approach to news is more than bad judgment. It shows complete disregard for the power of the media to affect campaigns, and for its responsibility to make a story as prominent as it is important...
Reeling from bad loans and famished for new capital, Unitedbank was a prime candidate for closure. Still, when an army of FDIC liquidators marched without warning into the bank's headquarters in a downtown skyscraper, the staff of 100 were traumatized. Secretaries wept as the intruders posted notices on the inlaid-glass walls, changed the door locks and dismantled automatic-teller machines. "We kept hearing the rumors, but nobody thought that this time it would be us," sighed Teller Erica Joiner, 30, who watched as armed guards took up positions in the lobby and federal officials affixed blue seals...
...completely deaf. At about the same time, sloppy management of the Four Seasons' business affairs plunged the group some $2 million in debt. To recoup, Valli embarked on a grueling schedule of about 300 concerts a year from 1969 to 1973. During that period, his ears got so bad that at times he had trouble hearing the band playing behind him. Finally, a series of operations restored most of Valli's hearing, and a string of No. 1 hits in the 1970s put the Four Seasons back on easy street...
After his first four shots, the prosecution says, Goetz approached Cabey, who was slumped in the subway seat opposite him. "You don't look too bad," Goetz said. "Here's another." He fired his fifth shot, severing Cabey's spine. Even if Goetz's first rounds were fired in self-defense, Waples maintains, his final shot went well beyond the need to protect himself. In his taped confession, Goetz said, "If I was thinking a little bit more clearly, I would have put the bullet against his head and fired...
Since the match was played in the indoor courts of Palmer Dixon--which has only three courts as opposed to the eight outdoors courts of Palmer Dixon--because of bad weather conditions, the Crimson only had to win the first five out of six individual matches to clinch the title...