Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more unpaid tickets. In the past fiscal year, Boston took in $22 million in fines and $4 million in meter revenue, quadrupling the take before 1981. The ticket collection rate soared to 70%. "If we hadn't taken these steps," says Vitagliano, "we could have a gridlock so bad that the only solution would have been to pave over the cars and start again...
...assistants, and all of the movers and shakers saw the same evidence. But once the emperor made his statement, they too feared reprisals, so they suppressed these bad thoughts and publically proclaimed a celebration. A leading member of the Senate howled. "We've licked the recession, "We've licked inflation...now we've got unemployment on the run." Even the normally cynical media concurred. "U.S. Jobless Rate Plunges a Half-Point to 9.5%," one headline screamed. Another paper said that "economic recovery [is] apparently gaining strength...
...serious public policy problem," Verba said last night. "The steady decline in turnout can definitely be thought of as having bad consequences for American democracy...
Washington was preceded by Gregory, who joked about the Chicago mayor's former tax problems and then proceeded to criticize President Reagan, who, he said, was so bad that "even whites are suffering...
...Things is bad for white folks," Gregory joked. "I was walking in the park in New York City and I saw two pigeons feeding two old white folk...