Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learning experience is largely a burden that students carry, not the professors," says Jensen, "which is not a bad rule." However, Jensen adds that for faculty, "it's easy to lay back and be protected form ignorance by the ethic in the classroom that you're not expected to provide the answers...
...feel very bad and certainly apologize for inconvenience to the traveling public, but the president obviously is ignoring his responsibility," Charles Bryan, negotiator for the machinists union, said yesterday on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley...
...bad, because there was much to ponder, and much of it good. America's friends, allies, trading partners and imitators in the region are thriving. Capitalism has boomed, and democracy has made tenuous but still significant progress. Meanwhile, America's onetime enemies are either realigning or undergoing a potentially millennial transformation, or both. In China "modernization" is a euphemism for de-communization. Viet Nam is pulling its troops out of Kampuchea and liberalizing its joint-venture laws to permit greater ownership by foreign investors. Even the hermit tyranny of North Korea has agreed to cooperate with a Seoul businessman...
...more than 40 years, the U.S. has held sway in Asia by a combination of Pax Americana and the almighty dollar. Uncle Sam has defended his friends against Communist expansionism while providing aid and guaranteeing markets. Now Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union is behaving less like the Big Bad Bear. The Soviets may well close their naval and air facilities in Viet Nam and continue to foster peace on the Korean peninsula. Many in the area believe it is only a matter of time before the U.S. withdraws from its own bases in the Philippines and removes its ground troops...
...such cinematic disasters as Blind Date and Sunset, Edwards sinks to new lows with Skin Deep. Discerning viewers will note that three recent Edwards films, The Man Who Loved Women (1983), Micky and Maude (1984) and now Skin Deep are all virtually indistinguishable. They are also all really bad. Perhaps what Edwards has been trying to do with all these films is to recreate the limited success he found in the Dudley Moore/Bo Derek film 10 (1979). If this is Edwards' intent, he has certainly failed...