Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you get 51 percent voting in a city election on a rainy day where you don't have a mayoral race, that's not bad," City Manager Robert W. Healy said last night...
Incumbents traditionally fare better than first-time candidates when the weather is bad on election day because they can draw longtime, neighborhood supporters to the polls, former Democratic City Committee Chairman Martin C. Foster said yesterday...
Though lacking accurate local color, Texas leaves a lot to be desired. But as a novel it is above average. Read as pure novel, Texas is not bad entertainment, even if it is long. The reading goes quickly, and even if the outlook it produces is skewed, it does give non-Texans a thorough exposure to a remarkable, offbeat place and its equally remarkable and offbeat people. Anyone who can remember one tenth of the details will be a walking encyclopedia of things Texan from the number of types of cactus in Big Ben National Park to the unlikely origin...
...with the varsity," Goldberger said. "They don't work together as a team during the week. If you look at the number of sophomores who are playing on the varsity, it's a good system, but if you look at the freshman record [Brown is winless], it's a bad system...
Voter turnout will "depend on the intensity of the bad weather," said Edward J. Samp, an election commissioner. "If we get deluged, we may only get 50 percent [of the registered voters...