Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Happy Hacker's holiday wish list, I'd just as soon get a singing telegram, two pound bag of caramel popcorn, or a candy cane. Of course, a laserprinter under the Christmas tree wouldn't be so bad either...
...scrutiny make it all but certain the NSC staff will have no alternative but to revert to its more traditional limited function. Hiring individuals for the staff who understand and accept this is obviously central. Legislating formal, explicit constraints should be avoided. Just as hard cases tend to make bad law, so specific abuses of public trust ought not necessarily prompt reactions either draconian or permanent...
...tear in the rotator cuff of his right shoulder. McMahon said, "I knew something was in there," though two arthroscopic examinations were required to find it. Missing him for six of eleven games, Coach Mike Ditka had frankly grown dubious. "Can you hear that?" whispered the quarterback, jiggling his bad handle. "It sounds like somebody's walking around in wet shoes...
...dropped from $32 a barrel to $9, the Texas economy went dry -- and just about everything that Connally and Barnes touched turned bad. Their $14 million, 14-story office building in Houston, 80% vacant, was foreclosed on and sold at auction. A swanky housing development, Triple Crown condominiums in Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex., is the target of a foreclosure suit. More than a quarter of the 212 lots in Austin's plush estates of Barton Creek sit unsold. A creditor has sued to foreclose on four shopping centers; a fifth has already been lost...
...farm in Floresville, is said to be worried, but determined to tough it out. That is no surprise coming from the man who was wounded during the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 and then went on to become a power in the Republican Party. "As bad as all this seems to you," Connally told aides recently, "it's not as bad as being shot through the chest." He and Barnes have been jetting around the world to drum up cash, because Texas, says Barnes, "is capital-poor...