Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this was for a temp job," says an ex-employee. Amazon detractors are easy to find. The company, like any growing society, has developed a caste system that embitters some in the lower orders. "I hated working there," says the ex-employee. "I was totally underutilized. My bosses were bad managers who just happened to sign on earlier than I did. There was this arrogance, like, 'I'm employee No. 117, and I'm going to be a multimillionaire, so do what...
...scene from a bad spy novel. There I was leaning against a kiosk on the Champs Elysees, furtively looking at a small black-and-white photo and trying to spot the elusive Pierre, an Internet legend who tries to stay out of the spotlight. I surveyed the tables at Fouquet's, the fashionable outdoor cafe where we had agreed to meet. No dice. How hard can it be to pick out a geek entrepreneur who's worth more than $5 billion...
...State Department has issued a warning to American travelers that terrorists may be planning attacks on locations around the world where New Year's revelers are expected to gather. While overseas bad guys like Bin Laden are the chief suspects, fears have also been raised about doomsday cults and crackpot racists in the U.S. Two middle-aged men were arrested in Sacramento, Calif., this month on charges of plotting to blow up two massive propane tanks. And federal agents are investigating the theft of nearly 1,000 lbs. of dynamite and ammonium nitrate from an Arizona rock quarry last week...
...fact, the only casualties that really worry Moscow are Russian. Media support is crucial to the generals, who believe, like their American counterparts in Vietnam, that they lost the last war because of bad press. This time they are taking no chances. In an operation that is half Soviet-style press censorship and half Desert Storm-style media management, the Russian command is totally controlling coverage. TV networks are not allowed to photograph Russian casualties and never show combat. When things go wrong, as they apparently did last week in Grozny, the official response to foreign reports is apoplectic. Accounts...
Wrong, say an increasingly vocal group of psychiatrists and criminologists. Many of the most depraved, coldhearted criminals, they suggest, suffer from a definable but little studied psychiatric disorder known as antisocial personality. "We blame crime on everything from bad parenting to violent video games," says University of Iowa psychiatrist Donald Black, whose book Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder was published early this year. "But medical journals don't cover ASP, and no one wants to look at it. It's baffling...