Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then I started to ask more questions about swimming. And my father pulled me aside, and he said: Look. Swimming is a bad way to go. You have to be in the water at least six, seven hours a day. He said: Where would you train? You can't train in the Harlem River; you lose seven or eight guys a year drowning, which is true. And he said you can't go to the ocean. The water's too rough. He said you can't go to the public pool; everybody's trying to cool off. Everything he said...
Thatcher received another piece of bad news last week when a High Court judge overturned a government-imposed ban on unions at the government's top-secret listening post at Cheltenham. The Prime Minister ousted the unions last January, claiming that two earlier work stoppages had badly disrupted the round-the-clock monitoring of satellite, radio and other communications. Though the judge upheld the government's right to forbid unions at Cheltenham, he ruled that the Prime Minister should have first consulted labor leaders and the Cheltenham staff. The decision, which the government is appealing, fanned opposition-party...
...elections, Duarte was greeted warmly in West Germany last week, met with cordiality in Paris, and invited to visit Britain, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. That marked a decided change in attitude by the West Europeans, who have long shunned El Salvador as a chronic human rights violator. So bad were relations that in 1979 West Germany suspended aid to El Salvador, and in 1980 the European Community cut off its milk donations to the country...
...part of one plan being discussed last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation would accept most of Continental's bad loans, estimated at $4 billion, in return for an estimated 80% stake in the bank. FDIC Chairman William Isaac would then dismiss Taylor and other top officials and install new bank management. In addition, observers say, the FDIC would substantially reduce the bank's $34 billion in assets by selling some holdings. The regulators may spin off the Chicago institution's weakest units into another bank, already dubbed "Trashco" by Continental employees, which could then be declared...
Spark's effortless casual linkage of a bad marriage and a shooting spree is not the least of her accomplishments. One of the lasting delights of the book is Spark's almost infallible ear. At a press conference about his wife, a reporter asks Harvey...