Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reassurance, a pat on the back, a little belief in every person's dream. He is a do-it-yourselfer in an era of easy cop-outs, a simple loyalist among the sophists, a gauzy visionary stumbling through computer printouts. He is comfort that things are not as bad as the experts say they are. Ronald Reagan is a mood that has seeped through the land like the beguiling scent of honeysuckle on a soft Georgia night. Millions have been soothed and seduced...
Forecasters also like to point out that while people may rem member bad predictions, they tend to forget the times when projections have been right...
Critics concede that forecasting has its place. "Whether we like it or not," Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset once wrote, "human life is a constant preoccupation with the future." Indeed, though bad predictions have hurt companies like AMAX, its chairman, Pierre Gousseland, still believes in trying to look ahead. Says he: "Economists are as essential to conducting your business as meteorologists are for anticipating weather patterns. The alternative would be flying blind." But even when the weatherman forecasts sunshine, a cautious person may take along an umbrella. Executives should be no less skeptical when listening to their economists. -By John...
...Games were the direct result of changes in personal attitude and public policy brought about by two inseparable revolutions: the women's movement and the growth of women's sports. Well within the memory of many of the women at this year's Games were the bad old days before 1972, when, for example, the budget for women's sports at the University of Michigan was zero, and they were funded by such expedients as girls' peddling apples at football games. At the University of Minnesota, men gymnasts passed on their used tape...
...post-Elizabethan years he finally gave up the bottle, did a few good plays and movies, notably Equus, and many bad ones, such as The Klansman and The Wild Geese. "I've done the most unutterable rubbish, all because of money," he confessed a few years ago. "I didn't need "it. I've never needed money, not even as a child, though I came from a very poor family. But there have been times when the lure of the zeros was simply too great." It may have been those seductive zeros that reunited him with Taylor...