Word: duds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bank funds. The bank has loaned some $118 billion since its inception. It has helped finance housing and sewage systems in the Brazilian slums of the city of Recife, irrigation systems in India and the construction of electrical generating plants in Thailand. Occasionally the bank comes a cropper. One dud project: the $110 million Bura irrigation scheme in Kenya, in which the World Bank participated and which the country's President, Daniel arap Moi, last January denounced as "a failure, a disgrace and the height of mismanagement." But usually the bank's efforts lead to solid accomplishments. A dramatic case...
...Dickens, such pluck and clarity of intent are completely captivating. A dud in bookkeeping class but an outstanding English student, Simon manages a transfer to an academic high school. Her lively essays attract attention. She has other notable attributes: blond hair, blue eyes, a sensuous mouth and a fortune in cheekbones. But even James Monroe High is a bit restricting. Foreshadowing the future world traveler, she writes, "I had no time for step- by-step projects; the urgent need was for swift voyages, with short stops at many ports of call...
What went wrong? "We obviously stubbed our toe," says Pierce. "We had what we considered a slump season." Others claim they could sense a growing attitude of caution and complacency. Says Leonard Goldberg, co-creator of the profitable Charlie's Angels and executive producer of this season's dud, Paper Dolls: "What made ABC so successful was that its programming was new, exciting and progressive." Garry Marshall, the creator of Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, agrees: "As I was leaving ABC to make films, the programming side was no longer selling innovativeness. The network was getting conservative...
High bids and dud missiles...
...newspaper route and set pins in a bowling alley, was written, "By the work one knows the workman." Fran thought this sketch of her character "was awful. Everyone else's said, 'To the best-looking girl in school,' that sort of thing. I thought what a dud I was." Today she owns a sewage-disposal service in Barrow, as well as a water-delivery service, as well as Pepe...