Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bad there aren't more people in hiscourse," Gallagher said, "but it suits me justfine...
...Instead he is incensed about work. "Meiyou," he says once, and then again. Meiyou (pronounced may-o) means "No, it cannot be done," or "No, we don't have it" -- a word foreigners learn quickly. "Too few primers," says Bi. "One hundred eighty-two students and 15 English books. Bad enough, right? But look at the books. They're about 40 years old, and boring. We can barely get by the first story...
Bailey's request signaled a new skirmish in a battle for the minds of Laytonville's young. The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack...
...lawyers, which made drug and alcohol tests impossible. Martin had flown 737s for only two months. Kleissaf had been at the controls, even though it was his first time in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 and federal regulations require the pilot to take off and fly in bad weather. Next day, after questioning the two, the National Transportation Safety Board reported that Kleissaf had accidentally pushed a button that decelerated the plane. Martin tried to correct the situation manually, then aborted the takeoff when the plane began to vibrate. The Federal Aviation Administration suspended the licenses of both...
Many medical and legal experts fear that the ruling, if upheld, could slow in-vitro research and intensify the national abortion debate. "A bad decision," says Ellen Wright Clayton, a specialist in law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. The judge could simply have weighed the respective interests of each spouse, Clayton contends, and decided to award the eggs to Mrs. Davis without going on to say when life begins...