Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because boxing is so hard, nobody thinks of it ever being done by choice or for pleasure, just for the money or the hope of some, by miserable circumstances and for rotten money. Both of boxing's big camps -- those who like despising it and those who dislike loving it -- are unsurprised whenever Roberto Duran or George Foreman comes back again. But they wonder how a bright person as prosperous as Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard, namesake of a blind man) could return from retirement and retina surgery to fight Marvin Hagler at any price. "Ray doesn't spend...
...birth rates fell 40% in schools with clinics, though Health Supervisor Wanda Miller was hesitant to claim full credit for the clinics. Of the adolescent mothers who used the services, 80% stayed in school, and repeat pregnancies were almost nonexistent. Follow-ups are important, says Miller, because teens are "rotten contraceptors...
There are many problems Israel must grapple with, the sooner the better--how to assimilate Jewish immigrants from Arab lands, how to keep its economy under control and how to deal with the West Bank while maintaining the Jewish identity of the country. There is much that is rotten in Israel...
...first of two dark episodes for Mets Ace Dwight Gooden -- McNamara said pointedly, "We probably aren't the greatest ball club in the world." The Mets smiled weakly. In 13 big league years at a rash of stands, this manager has been a man of rare civility and rotten luck. His 1981 Cincinnati Reds won more games than any other team but were gerrymandered right out of the play-offs by a labor strike and a split season. "I will never forget that until the day I die," said the hatchet-faced former minor league catcher, whose memory came into...
...believe either that Vicious and Spungen were pathfinders of a new sensibility, only too frail to find profit or pleasure in it, or that their symbiotic degradation is in some way instructive or entertaining. But no. The twin evil geniuses of the Sex Pistols were Lead Singer Johnny Rotten and the band's manager Malcolm McLaren. They defined the attitude of punk music; Sid and Nancy were just the creatures that lived and died under that rock. And since they begin in life's gutter, their fall into the sewer is a boring given. Alex Cox's movie (from...