Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry insiders said the aborted merger was a bad deal from the beginning. "It would never have worked," said Alan Edgar, an energy analyst for the securities firm of Schneider, Bernet & Hickman in Dallas. "Two ugly ducklings just won't make a swan." Concurred E.F. Hutton's William Craig: "It looked like a terrible deal for Occidental." He pointed out that Diamond Shamrock's principal oil holdings, which are in Indonesia, are being rapidly depleted...
...suggesting, however flippantly, that books might inspire bad conduct in young people, James raises a serious question that he tried repeatedly to re- solve. He argued constantly that the artistic spirit should be free to roam where it chooses, regardless of the taboos and strictures urged by conventional morality. He also believed that literature is im- portant and - powerful enough to change people for better and worse...
...understandable--he took on the punks and the system--but it retains a curiously surreal quality: the characters, hero and villains alike, are all abstract, marquee characters. Indeed, the whole Goetz phenomenon is life gone to the movies. The tabloids call the hero the Death Wish vigilante. The bad guys are out of A Clockwork Orange. The subway set is borrowed from Escape from New York. And now the audience picks up the chant from Network, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more...
...with ten television monitors, Burt tried to build his case by contrasting the documentary as it was aired with CBS's outtakes, the portions of filmed interviews that were cut from the program. For example, in the documentary, Wallace asks Westmoreland, "Was President Johnson a difficult man to feed bad news about the war?" Westmoreland's answer strongly implies that the general had a motive for being less than frank with the President: "Well, Mike, you know as well as I do that people in senior positions love good news. Politicians or leaders in countries are inclined to shoot...
...next year, when all the roommates were seniors, the fourth and final member of the suite enrolled in History 1375. Like the majority of her roommates, she realized she was in bad trouble the night before the final paper was due, and so she dredged up the essay her roommate had written three years ago, to such an enthusiastic reception. She handed it in the next morning, but to be on the safe side, she took off the title page, with the little blue whale drawn...