Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...please the million marchers in Central Park who demand simply and unequivocally. "No more nukes:" and those who want a solution they can push through Congress and then through the Kremlin. Of course, this seeming conflict has always tied anti-nuke thinkers up in knots, and that's too bad...
Will it help to explain that his nickname was Spider? Spider Nissen. Henry Nissen, a.k.a. Hank Nissen, a.k.a. Spider Nissen and the last clung to him like a bad smell. He had a touch of the hyena for that matter--the same we-eat-tainted-meat-together intimacy that burns out of a hyena's eyes behind the bars of his cage. So Spider Nissen would look at me and give a giggle as if we had both had a girl together, and each took turns sitting on her head...
This is not the first tune the 127-year-old Continental has been bailed out by the Federal Government. In 1934 the Reconstruction Finance Corp. rescued Continental after a series of bad Depression loans. Continental later regained prosperity and helped turn Chicago's downtown financial district on LaSalle Street into the futures-and commodities-trading capital of the world. But trouble returned as a result of the bank's go-go lending during the 1970s. Under former Chairman Roger Anderson, who was eased out last February, Continental lent freely for oil and gas drilling, condominium development and Latin...
Above all, however, suggests that a bank's worst problems often start in its own executive suites. The basic trouble with Continental was poor management that led to bad loans. Says David C. Gates, a New York City bank consultant: "Mismanagement caused Continental's problems, not deregulation. I think you had a corporate culture gone wild; they thought they could do no wrong...
Almost from the moment Castro consolidated power, his revolutionary government was determined to deny the existence of political "impurities" in Cuban society-by charging many dissidents with "moral impurity." Given the country's licentious reputation in the bad old days of the Batista regime, a program of sexual austerity had a plausible, even uplifting, ring. It would satisfy the puritanical strain that attends much leftist thought even as it appealed to traditional Cuban ideas of machismo, nourished in Castroites by their years of guerrilla warfare. As Writer René Ariza says, there is "some Castro...