Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stuff test-pilot tradition from which he hails, Navy Captain Robert Crippen, 45, Challenger's commander and the only space veteran on board, acknowledged the decision with cool resignation. Said he: "Well, we would like to have gone in there very much, but if the weather's bad, that's not the right thing...
...auto industry is one of the biggest gainers. Sales of American-made cars in the second ten days of June were up 73% over the same period a year ago. But the automakers also got some potentially bad news last week. The Supreme Court ordered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reconsider its decision to free automakers from a requirement that they equip future cars with automatic seat belts or airbags. The safety devices could cost the automakers up to $1,100 per car, which would be added to the sticker price...
...affair gave Cunningham, Agee, investment bankers and just about everyone else who touched it a bad name. But Sloan contends the real blame lies with the values taught at the Harvard Business School, which awarded M.B.A.s to both Agee (1963) and Cunningham (1979). Sloan writes that the graduate school "does not teach how to build and operate a better mouse trap. It teaches how to outsmart, to beat out the other...
...half years ago, the 325 employees who manufactured paper egg cartons at a Diamond International plant in Palmer, Mass., faced a cloudy future. Styrofoam containers were creating stiff competition, the recession was biting into profits, and with the American economy worsening, workers were suffering a bad case of unemployment jitters. Recalls Daniel Boyle, personnel director of the Diamond plant: "Relations between labor and management were strained at best...
GOOD ACTING OFTEN GETS WASTED in a bad play and that tragedy occurs in the Class Act Production's staging of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, currently at the Lyric Stage Theater in Boston. Pre performances by the three-woman cast are high powered and believable, yet the characters they play are one dimensional and difficult to understand...