Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gulf is that, once in a while, they seem to form their melodies around the lyrics rather than vice versa. As a result, parts of their songs (especially "Pieces of Eve"), can seem stilted or forced. Otherwise, however, this is a band with something to say. It's too bad that the majority of American listeners will never hear...
...Soifer, a member of the Brown Brothers Harriman banking firm: "There is no reason for panic. First Chicago has a problem, but it's solvable." Still, investors and depositors could not help being startled. Experts had assumed that the economic recovery would already have eased the problem of bad loans. But First Chicago's setback from lending in energy and agriculture demonstrates that some industries lag behind. Said a Chicago financial-industry analyst: "This shows how fragile the banking situation is." First Chicago took its write-off at the urging of examiners from the Comptroller of the Currency...
...quoted as saying: "Much as I oppose apartheid, I strongly believe that universities should not attempt to me their power to press their political and economic views on other organizations and individuals beyond the campus Wrong!. Wrong! Wrong! 200 percent wrong. Wrong and a very bad example. If child labor and slavery existed just outside the Harvard campus would not the University have a moral and ethical responsibility to use all its power to end those injustices? Certainly...
Shklar has little use for the transparent heroics of conservative rhetoric, we are left to our own political devices, honest and ordinary as they may be, Freed from nostalgia's extremism, we are asked to begin our "poor but epic battle" vice, Shklar's "liberal government for bad characters" is no sure thing; her virtue is no slouch. It has got to be fought for freely-and in spite of ourselves...
...current interest, he acknowledges, it somewhat abstruse. "The thing I'm interested in is . . . what kind of force is a moral obligation," he explains. "Sitting around asking. "What would happen if I broke a promise?' is just the kind of thing that gives philosophy a bad name...