Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weight class will keep their seasons alive. Farrell and Pete Holmes also have respectable chances for an invitation...Next week's lineup will be the same as Saturday's, except for Jerry Greenberg returning to the line up at 150 pounds. Greenberg sat out the Yale meet with a bad knee...Both 118-lb. Mike Meade and 190-lb. Kelly Flynn are the only two original starters who will remain on the injured list. Steve Fabry will continue to fill in for Meade, and Bunning will remain at 190 pounds...
...being advocated on Capitol Hill run the risk of proving counterproductive. Sweeping moves to cut off military aid to the Philippines (a modest $55 million this year) seem especially likely to do more harm than good. Morale among the often corrupt and ill-equipped Philippine armed forces is already bad. An aid cutoff might make things worse, although some Philippine military reformists dispute that. Even so, eliminating all American money might prove especially hazardous for armed-forces reformers, who have been chafing at the stagnation of the late Marcos years. Without protective U.S. influence, many of the approximately...
...concluded that we were flying toward the west. I was pleased because it seemed I was leaving the Soviet Union." When he asked the KGB agents where they were heading, one replied that he was authorized to say Shcharansky was being deprived of his Soviet citizenship because of his "bad behavior" and was being handed over to the U.S. as an American spy. In reply, Shcharansky said he was glad that, 13 years after he had made known his wish to give up his citizenship and leave the Soviet Union, the authorities were granting his request...
Briefly (very briefly), the story line focuses on the aforementioned Bacon as Jack Casey, a financial whiz extraordinaire, able to turn a profit of $30 million for his brokerage in three short years, breaking every record within reach. Then, inexplicably, he makes a bad deal one fateful afternoon and loses not only his own saving and his position on the stock market, but his parent's retirement money...
Things aren't all that bad, though, because he finally rejoins the ranks of the gainfully employed when he becomes a bicycle messenger for Quicksilver (hence the title of the movie). There, he meets up with aspiring capitalist Hector Rodriguez (Paul Rodriguez), a happy-go-lucky Mexican who's biding his time at Quicksilver's until he has saved enough money to purchase a hot-dog cart and work his way up the ladder of success...