Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...action stirred sharp domestic dissent among those who believe it violates the constitutional separation of church and state. South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings and Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker said they would oppose Senate confirmation of Wilson. Explained Hollings: "It is in violation of the First Amendment and sets a bad precedent." A number of church groups, including the National Council of Churches (N.C.C.), also objected. The President's "incautious and naive action" could stir up "anti-Catholic animus," said Dean Kelley of the N.C.C...
...worrisome truth is that skier days (one skier, one day) at the nation's resorts last season reached only 46.9 million, down almost 4 million from the season before. Was it just bad snow in the East, or has the skiing population reached a plateau? No one is really sure, but the best of the resort managers are choosing the same cures. The come-on is "Kids Ski Free!" At Waterville Valley, New Hampshire's largest area, there are free lift tickets on most weekdays for children under 13, if at least one parent buys a ticket...
...resulted in a more sympathetic public image of the wolf. Wildlife biologists see them not as lawless, marauding killers, but as highly intelligent social creatures that are monogamous, dote on their young and howl complex messages. Still, in Minnesota's North Country, Canis lupus remains the Big Bad Wolf. Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year. Farmers complained of a wolf explosion and charged that the animals were ravaging cattle and other livestock. Says Wildlife Educator...
...Many schools across the nation have learned to deal effectively with the breakdown in discipline that caused chaos in the nation's classrooms in the 1960s and 1970s. According to Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, discipline problems are "nowhere near as bad as they were five years ago - there has been an important swing in student and parent attitudes...
...painful need to grow up and an old man's passion to recall his youth. If only Steinbeck, an innately modest man, had been more modest as a writer, he might not have been destined to whipsaw himself between the pretentious and the trivial. It was his bad luck that he happened to be one of the last writers to dream, in all innocence, of writing the Great American Novel...