Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sponsored at least two attempts to topple Sudanese President Gafaar Nimeiri. Last February the U.S. responded to suspicious Libyan air force movements near the Sudanese border by deploying AWACS planes to Egypt and the aircraft carrier Nimitz off the Egyptian coast. Relations between Gaddafi and Nimeiri are so bad that each has called for the death of the other...
...another self-protecting action, the A.B.A. decided to fight legislation that would give the Federal Trade Commission more power to regulate lawyers, a responsibility now held by state courts and state bar associations. "In that agency in Washington stands a hot, sweaty, dirty, two-ton gorilla with a bad case of halitosis," trumpeted Texas Delegate Frank Jones Jr. "They're asking you to dance with it. I'm saying, don't do it." His colleagues took his message, if not his metaphor. They opposed more FTC oversight by an overwhelming voice vote...
...causing unnecessary cruelty to animals." The possible penalty: a fine of up to $500 or six months in jail. Yankee Manager Billy Martin, loser of a dispute involving a home run hit by George Brett's now famous pine-tarred bat, felt that his star was getting a bad rap. "They say Winfield hit the gull on purpose," said Martin. "They wouldn't say that if they could see the throws he's been making all year...
...nearly $1.15 billion deficit in the fourth quarter of last year, the largest ever for any American company. For the men and women who still make steel, the loss reports are ominous at the very least. For the 104,000 steelworkers already laid off, the bad news underscores what they have long known: perhaps as many as 30,000 of them will never again work at the trade that was once the symbol of American power and pride...
...mysteriously, a newborn will smile beatifically when a piece of cotton impregnated with banana essence is waved under its nose, and it will protest at the smell of rotten eggs. Other infant prejudices: vanilla (good), shrimp (bad...