Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes sense to try to improve relations with Iran, but it's a bad move to be seen bargaining for the release of hostages," said Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph...
...last year that United Press International made money, Lyndon Johnson was in the White House and the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night was climbing the 1964 record charts. Last week brought more bad news for the second largest U.S. wire service, which emerged from bankruptcy proceedings last June when it was bought by Mexican Newspaper Publisher Mario Vazquez Rana. The New York Times revealed that on Dec. 31 it would cancel its basic contract with U.P.I. (The Times still wants to use the wire's photo service.) Estimated cost of the dropped service: close to $1 million a year...
...book; it alludes instead to a passage from William Faulkner's The Bear that amounts to a dirge for man's despoliation of the New World. In the past, Dubus has called his collections names such as Finding a Girl in America (1980) and The Times Are Never So Bad (1983). Now, apparently, they...
...little bit of a belly or a tush, it's O.K." Moderation, she says intensely, is really the point. "Part of the problem of selling good health is that people think it's all or nothing. I try to let them know that it can be a little bad as long as it is mostly healthy." And she does not hesitate to admit her own frailties. Especially when it comes to ice cream. "I eat it until it's not there anymore," she confesses. "I wouldn't die if I were told I couldn't have ice cream...
...police defiance by inaction: no work, bad work, late work? How to police drink and jazz and love? For short bursts of time you can jail, even shoot, people for such crimes. But after a while you run out of bullets, jails, energy, even victims. Then the rot sets...