Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modest concessions on offensive weapons ^ and even harder against any concession on SDI. "Anything that gives up strategic defense would be undesirable in every way," Weinberger insisted last week. Even if the Soviets were to reduce their offensive arsenal in return, he added, curtailing SDI would be "a bad bargain for the world." Secretary of State George Shultz and his aides, especially Paul Nitze, have fought just as hard to move pieces rather than merely touch them...
...give up her baby when it was born. "The social worker told me if I decided I still wanted to keep the baby, that would be all right too," she explains. "When Daniela was born, I said I wanted to keep her. The social worker ^ said, 'That's too bad,' and took her from me." She never saw her baby again...
...city wants to promote competition, but not to the point where the traffic and parking situation get so bad that they throttle activity. That's what we're talking about now," said Councillor David Sullivan, who opposes the development...
...monitoring systems. Labor leaders contend that the working speeds are often set according to how fast the equipment can go, rather than what pace is comfortable for an average employee. Says Joseph Weizenbaum, professor of computer science at M.I.T.: "There is a widespread notion among employers that it is bad ever to let the computer wait -- ever to let it sit idle. We should realize that a few seconds aren't going to matter and say, 'Let's be human about this...
...club. Two ministers, a woman and a man, performed the ceremony. As party favors the guests received washaway tattoos. A bagpipe and bongo drums underscored the service. "It was great fun," says Bill Murray, Weaver's co-star in Ghostbusters. "But then I've never seen Sigourney give a bad party...