Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid a presidential straw poll scheduled for early August in Ames, Iowa, have angered some Iowa Republicans. Not that Bush's view of Ames as a booby trap isn't justified. Straw polls--where participants pay to vote--can be manipulated by rivals to make front runners look bad. Bush's rivals are already starting. They claim that Bush cutouts floated the idea of "reimbursing" the state G.O.P. for canceling the event. When that didn't work, they quietly inquired whether other big-name campaigns might join Bush in skipping Ames, hoping to render it meaningless. The Bush camp denies...
...persecuted or prosecuted by political enemies once he leaves office, that the sort of slights and humiliations he has inflicted on others will be visited upon him. He has plenty to fear. The sight of deputies accusing an incumbent President of high treason is a worrying reminder of how bad things could be for him when he leaves office. And impeachment was not his first nasty fright. Just two months ago, when his daughter Tatyana's name surfaced publicly in connection with an investigation into alleged corruption in the presidential administration, it looked as if the Yeltsin family shield...
Chrysler managers thrived on spotting opportunities and going for them, if necessary chucking previous plans as if they were gum wrappers. And here they were, trapped in Stuttgart's planning hell, bristling at constantly being reminded what to do. A top manager coined the phrase "I'm having a bad PMI day." Steve Harris, Chrysler's former communications chief who defected to General Motors in February, says the Germans played literally by the book--theirs. "You'd go into a meeting and have to turn to Volume 7, Section 42, page 597," he recalls. "The Germans pride themselves on analytical...
Rocket scientists and Wall Street analysts characterized the catastrophes as a spectacular run of bad luck. But the losses--the launch vehicles and the satellites they were carrying cost at least $3.5 billion--come at a time when the industry is simultaneously consolidating, introducing new technology and trying to boost the number of annual launches to meet rising demand. That's not a prescription for smooth sailing. "It could be a string of bad luck," says Pierre Chao, an analyst for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. "Or they are doing so many launches that something slipped...
...those guys writing about what a bad industry we are, are you?" he says with alarm. I confess that I might...