Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe just sitting home and watching TV isn't such a bad idea. Perhaps we should leave this NYE-Y2K to panels of reveling pundits discussing whether they're having fun yet. Or how about tuning in to some Extreme Reveling? Jon Krakauer Presents: America's Most Dangerous Galas. Experience, from the safety of your own La-Z-Boy, just how dangerous an unfurled noisemaker can be in a violent windstorm at 75[degrees] below zero...
...study, conducted jointly by the Securities Industry Association and Investment Company Institute, a pair of trade groups, reveals other shortcomings as well. For example, investors make way more trades outside their employer-sponsored retirement plan than inside. That's way bad. The typical employer plan is tax-deferred, so trades aren't taxable events. Not true in most other types of accounts...
...other bad news on cable modems--and this is why I'm a little mollified that I can't have one yet--is that they're more vulnerable to hacker attacks than regular set-ups. You see, one of the strengths of surfing via cable is that you're online 24 hours a day and don't have to disconnect every time you want to order Chinese food. But that can also be a weakness, because your IP address (the ZIP code of the Internet) doesn't change. Dial-up users like me who are still crawling along...
...wonder Axl Rose and his band, Guns n' Roses, picked this musical moment to attempt a comeback, contributing a fierce, though somewhat tuneless, new song to the sound-track CD for the forthcoming film End of Days. Lilith Fair is over, my friend. It's safe for the bad boys to come out and play...
...Rocha's rage are in his hometown of Irvine, Calif. He went to a mostly white high school where, as a Chicano, he seethed at racist comments about "wetbacks" made by students and teachers alike. At age 17, he saw a show by the black punk group Bad Brains, and it was "a personal revolution." De la Rocha, Morello, drummer Brad Wilk and bassist Tim Commerford formed Rage...