Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chances of that are zero. "Tip's point is that if the President is not willing to deal with this, he-Tip-isn't going to put Democratic heads on the block," explains a House Democratic leader. "That may be good politics, but it's bad economics...
Such an imbalanced recovery may be worse than a new recession because the damage will be corrosive rather than acute. "Things may not get bad enough," said Schultze, "to force us to make them better." The vitality in some parts of the economy may overshadow the sickness in others. Warned Eckstein: "We could sail through the 1980s-and gradually wreck our economy." Thus while everything on the surface looks fine, a danger lurks in the deep. -By Charles P. Alexander
HARVARD AGREED more than a year ago that there was something called "sexual harassment" and that, on the simplest level, it was bad because it placed a woman in a position where her sex, not any other attribute, dominated the way others dealt with her and dictate the things that happened in her life...
...deciding that these children are not responsible for their actions, the town of Brattleboro has opened up a question that will not soon be resolved. In thousands of cases across the country, lawyers can be expected to argue that their juvenile clients are victims, too, of a bad upbringing...
...large share of the paper's space is allotted to its graphics and photographs, a fact which in itself is not bad. But then USA Today's photographs for the most part don't duplicate the best photojournalism of, say, the old Life magazine, but rather the worst of the new Life: big, splashy, static color images that don't say much. The September 6 issue's front page features double column pictures of three people who knew a passenger on the downed Korean jet. "How the hell can you condone attacking a civilian jet?" asks Dennis Levesque. USA Today...