Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much as its erstwhile enemies did. Television devoted hours to round-table discussions about what happened. D-day veterans talked about the confusion among commanders and the contradictory orders that flowed from German headquarters. Historian Hans-Adolf Jacobsen told the viewers that a major German failure in 1944 in bad intelligence, the Allied Invadors were expected to strike in the Pas-de-Calais, not in Normandy. Stuttgart Mayor Manfred Rommel, whose father Field Marshall Erwin Rommel commanded the German Atlantic defenses, called D-day "one of the various great defeats in history." But Rommel felt no sense of slight. Reminding...
...first refugees to arrive at their new home in Campeche last week found inadequate housing and almost no water. Being accustomed to breezy higher altitudes, they worried about whether they could survive in Campeche's torrid jungle. Conditions were so bad that a group of Mexico's Catholic bishops condemned the transfer, saying that the refugees were being "abandoned to their luck." The Mexican government responded by naming a new director for the agency responsible for refugees, its third in two years. The move was not expected to ease the problem...
...Bad instructions are bad business as well as a torture to read. A maddening manual can cripple sales of products that might have been successful. Coleco lost $35 million in the fourth quarter last year partly because people flocked to return the initial version of its Adam computer, which the company offered for $600. In a statement to shareholders, Coleco blamed much of the consumer dissatisfaction on "manuals which did not offer the first-time user adequate assistance." Observes Joseph Sugarman, president of J S & A, a mail-order house that specializes in high-tech merchandise: "Very often, items with...
Unfortunately, the psychological element in chronic pain has often led physicians to dismiss their patients' complaints. Says Fields: "Many doctors and nurses believe that if a person responds to a placebo, the pain can't be very bad. This is a terrible mistake." Only about 5% of chronic pain patients are hypochondriacs or hysterics, according to Psychiatrist Anthony Bouckoms of Massachusetts General Hospital. "Pain itself is the reason people suffer; it is not psychopathology," he avers. And yet the most frequent question Bouckoms hears from pain patients is: "Tell me, doctor, is it all in my head...
...contain or understand; drugs as recreation, revelation and social challenge, a turn-on for talent, a tip sheet for personal apocalypse. He died, really, of the cumulative effects not only of the cocaine and heroin that had swollen his brain and bloated his heart but of all these bad dreams...