Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activists have complained that the city guidelines--though not as bad as other policies--discriminate against those with AIDS because they distinguish unfairly between sufferers of the disease and those who suffer from other chronic illnesses...
...with good reason. The costs of drug abuse on the job are staggering. The consequences range from accidents and injuries to theft, bad decisions and ruined lives. According to the Research Triangle Institute, a respected North Carolina business-sponsored research organization, drug abuse cost the U.S. economy $60 billion in 1983, or nearly 30% more than the $47 billion estimated for 1980. Other studies have found that employees who use drugs are far less productive than their co-workers and miss ten or more times as many workdays. Drug abusers are three times as likely as nonusers to injure themselves...
...idea how to combat it. Managers were not sure how to recognize the signs of drug use and were often afraid to confront workers who appeared to be high. Many executives doubted that the problem was serious enough to warrant a crackdown that might generate bad publicity...
...test all personnel is the U.S. military. Alarmed by rampant drug use among men and women in uniform, the Pentagon began widespread random testing in 1982, starting with the Army. At first, the program was developed so fast and handled so sloppily that it gave drug testing a bad name. Hundreds of soldiers claimed that they were falsely accused of being drug users because of inaccurate results...
...PROBLEM WITH Passion is not that anything about the Leverett House production is especially bad--many of the performances and parts of the direction are really very good--but rather that the play itself has neither the insight nor the levity to overcome its trite subject matter...