Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other countries are to pay their bills. While Congress has long criticized the United Nations for high salaries and exhorbitant expenditures, the United Nations has recently undertakes a substantial budget austerity proram that has earned the praise of even the Reagan Administration. The Senate stand sent another bad signal to the world during a period of tension and uncertainly...
...Newark International Airports. Reagan opened the Unites States to heavy, and just, criticism. Besides the ethical issue of whether or not the United States is living up to its treaty responsibilities as the United Nations' host (it's not in this case), the decision to harass Gromyko makes for bad politics. It permits other countries, all too eager to find fault with Number One, conclude that the United States is taking unfair advantage of its position as U.N. host to further its parochial interests...
...Harvard football team, it's no treat. No stranger to bad luck, the Crimson is still juggling its lineup and its playbook to cope with the otherworldly number of injuries that struck the team in the first half of the season. At one time or another, 14 starters haven't started for medical reasons...
Harvard is still optimistic about Friday's big meet. Says Rippy: "We've had bad luck the last two meets. It's about time our luck turns." The harriers feel they are good enough to beat Princeton and Dartmouth, the only two teams to defeat them this season, but they realize it will take a top performance. "Next week will be a test of character," Rippy concludes...
DESPITE THE HONOR CODE, a number of Princeton students apparently think cheating isn't that bad after all, or is at least a risk worth taking. A 1978 Honor Poll revealed that 17.1 percent of students questioned said they had cheated on an exam. Clayton believes that, after the poll, the Honor Committee felt pressure from the university's faculty to convict a greater number of students...