Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Certainly at such a Harvard, it would be possible to engage in a campus-wide discussion about AIDS, particularly last Wednesday, World AIDS Day. Instead, at this Harvard, we had the monumentally vicious scheduling of the conservative dinner, providing an opportunity to reminisce about the bad old days of the Reagan administration...
...There are a lot of people who would like to buy respectability by giving a gift to the University," the administrator adds. "Are we somehow bestowing legitimacy on a bad source by accepting...
...patience for companies that don't start making money immediately. The threat of massive failures at the big old companies has already drawn a backlash from top politicians who want to preserve lifetime employment. Next March, analysts predict, Nissan will announce an even bigger loss. But then, what's bad news for Nissan is good for Japan. --By Frank Gibney Jr. Reported by Tim Larimer/Tokyo
Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is the premier American jazz guitarist. His fingers sculpt gorgeous sounds from the six strings; I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles was never so poignant or supple as in his hands. But Emmet is also a pimp, petty thief, paranoid...if there's a bad word that starts with p, he's likely to be it. Driven by ego, dogged by insecurity, he rationalizes his outrages as the spillage of an overflowing talent...
...against country," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "It's Russia fighting against an informal army that isn't clearly answerable to a defined political center, and which the Russians are finding difficult to distinguish from the civilian population." The fate of Grozny's civilians, then, may hold some bad news for civilians everywhere caught in the conflicts of the future...