Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like and who we don't." Vo still works as a scraphog under Le's supervision. "I've been in the U.S. for six years, and the first time I came to Hawthorne they put me in jail," says a bewildered Vo. "They have a bad feeling about Vietnamese people here...
...chin, Bradley is not particularly telegenic. Although he has a wry sense of humor, he is too deliberate to be glib. But Bradley, who actually writes his own speeches, is trying to become less wooden. "You improve the more you speak," he says. "If you think I'm bad now, you should have seen me at the beginning. I'm up from zero." Having mastered what he calls his "inside game"--a thorough command of detail--he says he is working on his "outside game"--reaching voters with broad themes and symbols. Though Bradley can be standoffish to fellow Senators...
...appear on a talk show, people ask me about my father. Every time I give out an interview, people ask me about my father. Every time I pull out the American Express card, people treat me like my father. Come to think of it, that's not so bad...
...good news: criminals are going to jail in record numbers. The bad news: the prisons are already full. So concludes the Justice Department, which last week reported that as of December 1985, 503,601 people are now behind bars, 53% more than were incarcerated in 1980. Mandatory sentencing laws have prompted the increase, says a Justice Department expert. But this swelling tide has filled many U.S. prisons beyond capacity. Last year the lack of available cells forced corrections officials in 19 states to grant 18,617 prisoners early release...
...important. The bottle opened by Sue Snow, a 40-year-old banker from the Seattle suburb of Auburn, was found to contain three capsules laced with cyanide. When county officials released the bottle's lot number, Auburn Neighbor Stella Nickell, whose husband died June 5, called police with more bad news. Bruce Nickell's death, linked originally to natural causes, was reattributed to cyanide poisoning. In response, Bristol-Myers, Excedrin's manufacturer, withdrew all its nonprescription capsule products from the market...