Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz was also arguing forcefully for a new plan. There was, he told his boss, the "right political dynamic" to make the offer now. "I cannot go to Moscow without this," he reportedly said, "or you will be the one to look bad." When Reagan finally gave his approval the new instructions were quickly sent by cable to Geneva, and the outlines of the offer were incorporated in a letter from Reagan that Ambassador Arthur Hartman delivered in Moscow. As one State Department official put it, "Once it was out in two capitals, the Pentagon would not be able...
...There's a lot of talk that one didn't hear only a few years ago," says Glenn Loury, 37, a political economist at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "It's driven by a combination of circumstances: things are bad and getting worse for a significant fraction of the black community in the big cities, and there has been a palpable failure of the old classical strategies to produce results." Loury has become the most vocal member of what might be called the post-civil rights thinkers. The group also includes William Julius Wilson, 49, a University...
Wacker said he did not foresee any hysteria about the disesase at Harvard. "We didn't have a bad reaction to a death at Harvard [of and AIDS patient]," he said...
Many freshmen jokingly criticize the quality of the food, but then admit that Harvard doesn't do that bad...
...most disciplined and technically well-honed--performances here are also the straightest. Remo Airaldi's Angelo is menacingly evil without giving way to histrionics, while Liza Diprima impresses as Isabella--a difficult role as the character is so painfully good while all around her are being so deliciously bad...