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Word: badness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...millions funding terrorist activities in Nicaragua (though only about half as much as it spends funding anti-terrorist activities everywhere, which means we're good guys after all) in an attempt to counter what we believe is a serious threat to Democracy and self-determination. Nicaragua is not as bad as either South Africa or the Soviet Union. Thus, we should finance terrorist activity or possibly wage all-out covert war against both countries...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Cheap Thrills | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

...others say the actions of Law School administrators are intimidating in a community where a bad mark on a transcript can seriously set back a legal career...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha jr., | Title: Free Speech and Protest at the Law School | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

...played in the East-West game [a college all-star game] last year and had a good second half," Lovat said. "We figured if he could make such an improvement between halves [Caron had a bad first half], we could work with...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Colt Tethered to the Bench | 11/12/1985 | See Source »

Since then, Flexer has played in about 40 tournaments, including the national 15-and-under boy's singles championship in 1983. Last year, after a bad draw and a tough defeat in the semifinals, he placed third in the Nationals...

Author: By Anne Gammons, | Title: Flexer Takes C Levels at Easterns; Badminton Star Shoots for Olympics | 11/12/1985 | See Source »

...women paraded through the capital to protest the "Marcos-Reagan dictatorship." Then U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth charged that 15 Americans have been killed in the Philippines during the past two years, four of them "allegedly at the hands of security forces." At week's end there was more bad news for Marcos: one of his physicians, Dr. Potenciano Baccay, 45, had been kidnaped and slain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Patience Is Running Thin | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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