Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tension-filled start. Proclaimed NASA Official Jesse Moore, after the five-man shuttle crew made a predawn landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California: "It was a beautiful mission from the outset." Well, not exactly. Discovery's launch had been postponed twice at the last minute, first by bad weather, then by a faulty backup computer. The third try seemed doomed to failure too when the storm system that later spawned Hurricane Elena darkened the sky and began pelting Cape Canaveral with rain shortly before launch time. But NASA officials were determined to make this one good. Stretching...
...South Africa is already such a pariah. Few identify it with structural problems of the system. Vietnam was different. You had bad guys all over the place," says activist Ball...
...bad news is that your Harvard tuition this year will come to $16,500. The good news is that Harvard experienced its lowest percentage price jump since 1973, and it will cost less to go here than either Princeton or Yale. Other data released in the annual College Board survey stated that Harvard is the sixth most expensive college in the nation. College Cost 1. Bennington $17,210 2. MIT $17,030 3. Barnard $16,842 4. Princeton $16,790 5. Yale $16,650 6. Harvard $16,500 7. Sarah Lawrence $16,285 8. Stanford $16,193 9. Tufts...
...Bad as things were already, they will probably get worse this week if, as expected, tens of thousands of black miners go on strike. In recent negotiations, some of the mining companies have come close to agreeing to the black union's demand for an across-the-board 22% wage increase, while others have not. At week's end a strike was due to begin Sunday night at five gold mines and two coal mines employing a total of 60,000 black miners. In the past such walkouts have led to the firing of large numbers of striking workers...
Gangs of Gypsy youngsters menace Paris Metro riders by picking them clean in seconds, and purse snatchers on mopeds plague the Champs-Elysees. Says Paris Police Judiciaire Commissioner Claude Bard: "Paris is as bad as Rome, if not worse." Indeed, while scooter-riding bandits in the Italian capital still lift bags from foreign shoulders along the Via Nazionale, the petty-crime rate has actually dropped slightly, owing to increased police vigilance. One golden * oldie that still works: thieves slightly puncture a rental car's tire, and when a flat develops on the Autostrada del Sole, they pull alongside, offering...