Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drawing on my "expertise" acquired at my uncle's drugstore I quickly got a job at Liggett's North Station store--behind the soda fountain. It was a 56-hour week on rotating shifts for $15 a week. Not bad especially when you consider that females were paid $12 for the same gruelling schedule...
Shown copies of his papers by TIME last week, Shortley said, "Isn't that awful? I made a big mistake. I feel bad about it." He conceded that "I have lunch with Hickey all the time," but insisted, despite his notes to the contrary, "I never talked about strategy with...
...that is a heartbeat away from the greatest power in the world. It is a form of political cryonics. The Vice President is, so to speak, flash-frozen and then, should the need arise, thawed out later. There is no such thing as a good Vice President or a bad Vice President?a Vice President is simply a hypothesis on hold. John Nance Garner, Vice President in Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss"?a phrase the listening reporter bowdlerized to "warm spit...
...woman on the Democratic ticket this summer is that there is no one truly qualified?or, at least, no one better qualified than any number of available men?and that any woman who appears on the ticket will be there only because of her gender. Is that so bad? If Ferraro or Feinstein were a man, it is unlikely that either would be mentioned for the vice presidency. On the other hand, if Lyndon Johnson had come from, say, Rhode Island, instead of from Texas, John Kennedy would never have picked him for the Democratic ticket...
Manufacturers Hanover denied that it suddenly needed to raise cash and called the rumors "absurd." Senior Vice President James Hambelton said the bank had one of the smallest portfolios of bad loans of any lender its size...