Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Standing in line was a great opportunity to check out the more unusual clothing. One girl was dressed like the Statue of Liberty; it wouldn't have been that bad if her date hadn't looked like Lee Iacocca...
Harry Truman used to complain that he needed a "one-armed economist" because his advisers were always starting briefings with "On the one hand . . . but on the other hand . . ." Last week economists had to use both hands as they confronted a puzzling mixture of good and bad news...
Welcome to Capitol Hill in the era of Gramm-Rudman, the half-desperate deficit-reduction measure passed last fall and described by one proponent as a "bad idea whose time has come." No one doubts that Gramm-Rudman's requirement to shrink the federal deficit each year by fixed amounts has changed the way Congress does business. What its members are unable to agree upon is whether the change is for the better...
...situation developed around this inanimate object. Whenever the authorities did not like something, it was our car that suffered. Two tires would be punctured or a window smashed or smeared with a durable glue. If something like that happened to our car, we knew that we had done something bad by their standards: perhaps we had managed to talk to someone on the street or at the market, or had gone to the wrong place...
...Margo St. James, founder of the National Task Force on Prostitution, a U.S. prostitutes' group: "People are too afraid to come out in the streets these days." But most of the women were irrepressibly optimistic. One wore a T shirt emblazoned with the message GOOD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN, BAD GIRLS GO EVERYWHERE...