Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high schoolers especially liked the demonstrations. One student had nothing but praise for the Science Center: "This place is bad...
...manacled and headed toward annihilation. But Dr. Castro is not Dr. No, Che is not Goldfinger, and the Cuban missile crisis was not some apocalyptic fantasy. It is to Buckley's credit that within his fiction, actual events are made as urgent and terrifying as they were in the bad old days...
...chemical engineer, used to get annoyed at how pieces of paper that marked his church hymnal always fell out when he stood up to sing. He knew that Spencer Silver, a * scientist at 3M, had accidentally discovered an adhesive that had very low sticking power. Normally that would be bad, but for Fry it was good. He figured that markers made with the adhesive might stick lightly to something and would come off easily. Since 3M allows employees to spend 15% of their office time on independent projects, he began working on the idea. Fry made samples and then distributed...
...some 116,000 Chadians, 250,000 Ugandans and 5,000 Zairians, the outlook is bleak. Once regarded as the potential breadbasket of the Arab world, Sudan has in four years gone from being an exporter to an importer of its sorghum, a grainlike staple crop. Through a combination of bad weather and overgrazing of arable land, production fell from 3.4 million tons in 1981 to 1.3 million tons last year. The result has been bread shortages throughout the country, even in the capital of Khartoum, and the frequent unavailability of supplies for the refugee camps. Says Hassan Atteya, Sudan...
Calls for unity among opposition leaders multiplied in recent weeks after Marcos was reported to be in ill health, but that goal seems as illusory as ever. Bad feelings linger from the split highlighted during last year's elections, which some opposition parties participated in and others boycotted. The most comprehensive unity plan was signed last month by nine of the eleven major opposition leaders. Two pivotal figures, Assembly Member Eva Estrada Kalaw and former Senator Salvador Laurel, refused to sign the document, which outlined a platform and a nominating procedure in case of Marcos' sudden demise. Kalaw, leader...