Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel so bad," said Janis. "The bird sounds so distraught...
...religious convictions. Therefore when we enter into a debate like the one we are now having, there is a special responsibility for restraint, for civility, for affirming the right of the other person to have a position that differs from yours and to avoid accusing people of being in bad faith. Religious spokesmen have a responsibility to remember that overheating the conversation is not going to contribute to what any of us want. But an elected official has the most sensitive kind of responsibility for nurturing the diversity that is the most remarkable thing about American religious life...
...Democrats are calling the Republicans the party of the rich, while Republicans are trying to prove the Democrats are the less godly. George Bush has a label for himself: "A conservative but not a nut." Nowadays newspaper columnists who comment on such matters also wearlabels, which is a bad idea whose time has come...
...financial-disclosure fraud has become the top priority of SEC Chairman John Shad this year. The federal agency is coming down hard on companies that sugar-coat their earnings reports to give stockholders an artificially sweetened idea of corporate performance. Says Shad: "Some companies try to hide the bad news." So far this year the SEC has brought lawsuits against 25 firms for cooking the books, compared with 23 in all of 1983. This month the SEC is also expected to impose stricter guidelines for financial disclosure. Under the new rules, companies would be required to publish separate financial figures...
...Dileo in Los Angeles, Jackson, who lives with his parents in Encino, Calif., categorically denied that he had ever "taken hormones to maintain my high voice" or "had cosmetic surgery on my eyes." Furthermore, he threatened to take legal action against any publication that suggested otherwise. That was the bad news. The good news, according to Jackson's publicity agent: "If little girls want to grow up and marry Michael, now they know they've got a chance...