Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feels a little bad," Harvard Co-Captain Jenny Pyle said. "I know one of the players on the Brown team. We played together in high school. But that's the way it is. This game just proves we should have won the Ivy League this year...
...kidding. The new dean doesn't really have a mandate to let your psyche run free in the soft wind of the subconscious. His or her job will be to alleviate the logjam in the University's libraries. In many of Harvard's libraries, the space situation is so bad that there isn't enough shelf space to hold all the books in the system. Compiled by JONATHAN M. MOSES
...example, a driver can take his road test in a family sedan, then hit the highway in an 80,000-lb. rig. Beginning next year, long haulers will be banned from holding more than one license, preventing them from distributing citations among licenses from several states and thus hiding bad safety records...
...while the interest rate trend has been favorable, hundreds of the weakest thrift institutions have been all but overwhelmed by unexpectedly large losses from bad loans. Many of the shakiest institutions are in communities that rely on farming or energy production, which have been deeply depressed. About 31% of the savings associations in Iowa and 43% in Oklahoma are losing money. Just last month, a major oil-patch S and L, Western Savings Association of Dallas, was declared insolvent, and control of its $2 billion in assets was seized by the bank board. It was the third largest thrift industry...
...opponents of apartheid was mixed. Timothy Smith, head of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an umbrella organization representing more than 200 Roman Catholic and Protestant groups, called the moves a "significant victory for antiapartheid forces" because they send a message to other U.S. corporations that "it is bad business to do business with South Africa." Leon Sullivan termed the new withdrawals a "big first step toward achieving the goal of ending apartheid"; he now believes that a "total embargo" will be necessary if racial segregation is not dismantled by next June. Other antiapartheid activists were less enthusiastic. Richard Knight...