Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the federal deficit running about $200 billion a year [Nov. 28], President Reagan may go down in history as the biggest spender with the biggest deficits. It is too bad, because in many ways he is our best President in 60 years...
Those disadvantages were compounded by a decision to dispatch the 28 planes in a "target rich" stream that gave the Syrian gunners a greater opportunity to adjust their weapons. "It's not so bad if you're the lead plane," says a U.S. pilot with experience in the Viet Nam War, "but if you're number five or eight, or worse, 28, you're going to catch hell." It seems likely that the two downed planes and a third that escaped with minor damage were hit with concentrated bursts of conventional antiaircraft or machine-gun fire...
Workers haven't taken this bad a beating since before 1935," says Lewie Anderson, director of the packing house division of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Anderson can see the damage among his own battered members. The average hourly wages for 110,000 workers have been cut from $10.69 or more to around $8. Some pork and beef workers have been thrown out of work altogether and replaced by nonunion employees who earn as little as $5.50 per hour...
Treason, said Talleyrand, is only a matter of timing. So is being a big bad oil jompany. Six years ago when gasoline prices were heading skyward, the Justice Department started an investigation of oil companies for alleged price rigging of Persian Gulf crude flowing into the U.S. Later the case was narrowed to the four U.S. majors who owned and operated Aramco, the Arabian American Oil Co., which pumps Saudi Arabian oil. Last week the Government dropped the case, saying that the firms, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California, no longer had a major influence...
Only seconds after the space shuttle touched down on the California desert last week, a playful voice crackled from the radio at Mission Control in Houston. "Columbia," it said, "we've got some good news and bad news for you. The good news is, we've had lots of beer waiting for you. The bad news is, we drank it eight hours...