Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the City of Boston tries to push a rent control and condominium conversion control package through the city council, the real estate industry and the Yuppie condo owners stop it. Then Newsweek makes it all official by devoting an issue to the Year of the Yuppie. With such bad press, who would want to be a Yuppie...
...from "Ronnie." Every July on Nancy's birthday, Reagan calls David Jones' Hollywood flower shop and has a bouquet sent to Edith Davis, his mother-in-law. Says the florist: "He thanks her for giving him Nancy." Last Election Day, when the First Lady was still wobbly from a bad bump on the head received two days earlier, the President fretted so much that he ignored early exit-poll results and wanted to cancel three important press interviews he had scheduled. At Camp David, the two former movie stars cozy up on a sofa in the dark, holding hands...
...heap bad luck on top of that, the airline on which the team had return reservations went out of business...
Things got so bad that when McLaughlin heard that Penn guard Anthony Arnolic--who almost single-handedly beat Harvard last year will miss Saturday's encounter because of a thing injury, the coach remarked. That's the first good news I've heard all week...
...Chief mulls over this unexpected development completely opposite all of the goods' (his favorite nickname for The Good 01' USA) expectations. "Why are they responding in this way to our weapons increase," he thinks, "don't they know they are escalating the arms race which is bad for all mankind...