Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begun to be voiced by others. In return for continuing to allow them to operate from Honduras, the government there has asked Washington for guarantees that it would resettle the rebels in the U.S. if their crusade fails. Concludes a top U.S. official: "Potentially, they are in very bad shape...
What particularly rattles Chairman Rand Araskog, 53, is that the plotters could be getting help from some of his own colleagues. Last week Edward Gerrity Jr., ITT's public relations chief since 1961, admitted that the company had suspended him after accusing him of feeding bad news to the financial press. Sources at the Securities and Exchange Commission, meanwhile, confirmed that the agency is investigating whether someone outside the company is breeding rumors about ITT in order to make an illicit stock profit...
...bad news for American firms, though, is that all the 1984 growth comes from imports, especially from Taiwan. While U.S. bikemakers expect to sell 6 million cycles this year, down from 6.3 million a year ago, imports will jump from 2.7 million in 1983 to 3.7 million in 1984. Foreign-made brands now account for nearly 40% of U.S. bike sales...
...additional 17 have been merged with stronger competitors. FDIC Chairman William M. Isaac, who has told the White House that he would like to leave office early next year, warns that if interest rates head back up and the economy weakens, next year could be just as bad...
...their own prerelease publicity. Mention Cleopatra and the memory swirls, not with images from the film but with tabloids screaming the latest indiscretion of Liz and Dick. Mention The Cotton Club 20 years from now, and the graybeards will have forgotten whether it was a good film or a bad one. Instead, they will gather their young ones around the video fireplace and enthrall them with this fable...