Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediately after the choice of Ferraro indicated less enthusiasm at the grass roots than among political activists. Majorities of both sexes?62% of men, 54% of women?gave the selection a blah, "all right" rating. But among men, only 13% were excited by the choice; 20% thought it a "bad idea." The margin among women was surprisingly small: 22% excited, 18% saying "bad idea." One possible clue to the results: 60% of all those polled thought Mondale had made his choice in response to pressure from women's groups, vs. only 22% who thought he picked Ferraro because...
...find the stuff that once put them in the limelight, but Lee isn't doing that. His arm is more or less shot, he hasn't pitched in the majors in over two years, and he has been effectively blackballed by front office types who think he has a bad attitude. No, Lee must be playing because he likes...
...year and resents anyone who tried to interfere with that. Throughout their history the Red Sox's greatest obstacle has been the team's management and front office. The current Haywood Sullivan-Buddy Leroux power struggle over the team is only the long sorry history of bungled trades, bad player management and outright stupidity. Although he does it indirectly, Lee paints a very clear picture of what has, is and probably always will be wrong with...
...business. Her ferocious style makes it seem like she is "beating up all those innocent young girls," as she wryly puts it. Not so, says Peanut Louie: "It looks like she's having fun playing tennis. Even if you get murdered you don't feel so bad." In short, Navratilova is anything but a diesel truck steaming heedlessly toward immortality...
...wealthy scholar-dilettante who retires to rural France in his mid-30s. There he occupies himself with a monograph on the riddle of universal suffering: If the Lord is beneficent, why does his earth contain so much misery? On the bestseller list that conundrum is called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Here it is entitled The Only Problem...