Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most unlikely to accept, he insisted that interest rates are "not connected to the deficit [but] are tied to the lack of confidence of so many in the market, as to whether we are determined to hold down inflation." Aides note that high interest rates are not all bad; they indirectly help produce a huge trade deficit that hurts the U.S. but helps other countries because it means they are selling more goods and services to American customers...
Hart insists that the Democratic Convention will not pick Mondale if he loses every primary this week, no matter what the delegate total. But Hart seems bent on self-destruction himself. In a classic campaign boner, he exposed his sarcastic side at a fund raiser in Los Angeles. The "bad news," he told a well-heeled audience standing on the lawn of a Bel Air mansion, is that he has to campaign apart from his wife Lee. "The good news for her is that she campaigns in California while I campaign in New Jersey." When Mrs. Hart interjected...
...further Government aid would be costly to Continental's shareholders. A federally assisted merger could mean the write-off of Continental's $2.3 billion in bad loans and a sharp drop in the value of its stock. Mindful of that possibility, investors last week continued dumping Continental shares, which stood at 25 just nine months ago. The stock dropped a total of 2⅝ last Wednesday and Thursday, to a record low of 5½, before closing the week...
...bulk of them are effective." Verba says of the University's staff of some 900 TF's. But he adds that "I don't deny there is some bad teaching going...
...some cases, there was little communication at all. Many members of Lionel remember that Tim, the Indiana Mennonite, bad trouble talking with other members of the dorm. Carol recalls that when she and Tim once talked about rape, her feminist views and his religious ones clashed so violently that the discussion eventually had to be broken up by force. Others, however, remember how little Tim ever said. Gary perhaps noticed it most, since he and Tim drove west together over several vacations. "We drove west for 15 hours and he'd say absolutely nothing," Gary recalls...