Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes remain fixed on the large black leather Bible spread before him. His pasty white face carries a sad, dazed expression. He is plainly shaken by his fall from grace. "We've almost died," he says. "I want to tell you . . . the first five weeks was like living hell." He pauses and touches the Bible. "At times we really wished they would have put a bullet in our head." Almost inaudibly he sighs. "I'm tired...
...Swedish welfare state. Nonetheless, Gunnar Myrdal in 1980 charged that excessive taxation was "turning Swedes into a gang of hustlers." A man of perplexing contradictions, he wrote early in his career, "Human beings are good; we can improve conditions through reforms," but later decided, "The world is going to hell in every possible...
Goldenberg opposed Harvard's current calendar because "it makes Christmas a non-vacation, extending the stress period until January, when we have a whole month of hell ahead...
Professor Kezios offers his students a stout principle for ethical dilemmas like the one at Morton Thiokol: "Raise hell, stand firm." But he acknowledges that such doctrine is easier said to students in school than done by them in the working world: "They don't have any clues as to how they are going to behave out there." In Los Angeles, Michael Josephson, a Loyola Marymount University law professor who has founded a new institute for ethical studies, is grappling with the same reality gap. "It's easy to say you want to make a lot of money and also...
...whatever Duncan decides about the rest of his hoop career, the fates have conspired to create one hell of a trivia question for future generations...