Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall mood in Washington and Western Europe was one of deep worry. As Stefano Silvestri of Rome's Institute for Foreign Affairs put it, the tone of Andropov's reply seemed "to suggest the bad temper of Khrushchev at the beginning of the '60s, and that of course brings memories of the Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis and all the rest." Against that gloomy backdrop, it was tempting last week to conclude that as relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated, the Ad- ministration was playing its China card, cozying up to the world's most...
...abroad. Says Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "As the ancient Greeks said, 'An individual's faults are virtues carried to excess.' When the dollar is excessively strong, it hurts our trade and that hurts jobs in the U.S. Too much of a good thing can be bad...
...narrow concern for economists and speculators. The dollar links U.S. economic policies to individuals as varied as Brazilian coffee growers, German steelmakers and American car buyers. A strong American currency is important for the U.S. and for the world. But today's overvalued dollar is almost as bad as the undervalued one of the late '70s. Moreover, the dollar's wild swings during the past four years point up an underlying weakness of the international monetary system.-By John Greenwald...
...paying closer attention to market forces, becoming more pragmatic," he adds. "It's too bad there aren't more of us have because Harvard offers us an education we could...
SALLY RIDE probably put it best when she got around to commenting on the media adoration which, several weeks after her landmark space flight, was still going strong. "It's too bad," she noted, "that this has to be such a big deal...