Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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The inane simplicity of disco held no promise for him; yet RCA probably hoped Hall and Oates would join the then swelling ranks of converted white disco acts. Hall makes it clear in "Something in 4/4 Time" that he would have no part in the disco phenomenon. We hear a...
You glibly gloss over serious charges against capitalism, among them the perpetuation of gross inequalities of wealth and consequently opportunity, ecological disaster resulting from a system that favors corporate profits over a clean environment and human welfare, stress on the individual. Capitalism offers economic freedom only to those who already...
The penalties had also been imposed in an attempt to discourage U.S. boat crews, many of them hopeless land lubbers, from risking their lives on the high seas. Indeed, when a fierce storm with near hurricane-force winds lashed the straits last week a major disaster threatened the main body...
No White House experience repeats itself. But there are similarities from the past. Theodore Sorensen, John Kennedy's aide, recalls that in the first hours of the Bay of Pigs disaster, Kennedy was angry. "It fired him," said Sorensen. J.F.K. launched a Government-wide review of his people and...
Brown knows his subject. As a reporter for the Niagara Gazette, he broke the story of the Love Canal disaster, revealing how chemicals buried in an abandoned waterway were leaking into homes and were suspected of causing health problems, from respiratory and liver ailments to birth defects.