Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people thought he would be a semi-invalid. His doctor, Vice Admiral George Burkley, found that Johnson's heart functioned normally through five years of the presidency. When Johnson, believing he would lose the 1968 election, reluctantly went home, he seemed to lose purpose, reverted to bad eating and smoking habits, and died in four years...
...pollution-control equipment can be built today for around $1,200 per kW; a nuclear plant costs $3,000 per kW. Says Komanoff: "The power industry may really have made only one forecasting mistake, and that was that nuclear plants would become cheaper." That one mistake would have been bad enough, but the industry also committed several others...
...Miami's New Biscayne Federal Savings ($1.9 billion). A year ago Citicorp purchased California's big Fidelity Savings & Loan ($2.9 billion). During the 1960s and '70s, many money-center banks began looking overseas in search of opportunities to expand. But with their books now showing bad debts from Poland, Brazil and other countries, bankers are trying to tap safer, domestic markets...
...desire a racially equal society are naturally tempted into calling for radical means to bring about that end as quickly as possible. Nevertheless, some of us don't succumb, because we know that the rights which are violated today for a good cause may be violated tomorrow for a bad one. The safest course is never to violate them at all. James...
Rosovsky said that Nobel laureate James Weston once told him." "You know the difference between a good dean and a bad dean is that a good one listens to gossip. By that he didn't mean gossip in the silly way, now I do and I think it's a good piece of advice...