Sentences with phrase «bad old days»

GOWANUS — President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts would undo decades of progress toward cleaning the toxin - riddled Gowanus Canal and send New York back to the «bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution,» state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Tuesday.

A. Uncertain Ground is set in Galveston in 1953 during the good old - bad old days which serve as a background for the lead characters who at age 20 are trying to begin their adult lives, to decide for instance, what work to do, who they can love, where they need to go, how to deal with uncertainty.

Crime will sore to levels not seen since New York's bad old days if the City Council decriminalizes quality - of - life offenses such as fare - beating, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton warned Monday.

But in practical terms, what this most often comes down to is a series of vignettes involving superannuated Weathermen and Students for a Democratic Society types (additionally played by Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, and Richard Jenkins — it's quite a cast) prattling on about the good - bad old days while the FBI dragnet, and that rapacious reporter, close in.

Back in the supposedly bad old days, before so many people became so politically correct, there were schools and other institutions that were basically dumping grounds for students who endangered the education — and often even the safety — of other children.

Given that the economy eclipses every other issue in every issue tracker you care to name, the 2015 election message will surely be that a vote for Miliband would be a return to the «bad old days of spend, spend, spend».

By marrying Messenger and chatbots, she said, customer service has taken a giant leap beyond the bad old days of email marketing.

Too many investors saw something else: a return to the bad old days of aggressive currency manipulation, evidence that the Chinese economy was much weaker than thought, or both.

The bad old days of bosses giving orders and employees blindly following fortunately are mostly behind us.

«The pension will likely require higher payments... but the deficit is greatly reduced from the bad old days,» she wrote in a May 9 report.

Reminds me of the bad old days of the financial crisis, minus the subprime.

He describes the modern Federal Reserve as maintaining its optionality; He explains how the Repo operations of the Fed currently operates, and why the transparent communication of the Fed is much improved from the bad old days when they would simply execute market transactions while saying nothing.

Is the FOMC revisiting the bad old days of the 1970s, when it tried to explain away inflation that was too high by pointing to a seemingly endless stream of one - off factors?

But if we should return to the bad old days of 1979 - 1980, which produced the worst drawdown ever in Treasuries at the same time stocks went south, shorter maturities will be the best place to hide.

Everyone swore we would never go back to the bad old days when people could put only 1 % down and still secure a 30 - year mortgage.

But the bad old days ain't over yet.

RICK SHARGA, CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES: We «re not going back to the bad old days of ninja lending when people with no jobs, no income and no assets were getting loans.

Recent U.S. equity volatility may have you wondering if we're back to the bad old days of 2011.

But those were the bad old days, right?

But this shared responsibility marks a sea change from the bad old days when investors gambled their counterparties would make good on their contracts.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greek stocks and bonds have been hammered this week, a reminder of the bad old days of Europe's debt crisis when the very future of the euro currency was called into question.

But I'm willing to bet that, as was the case for Catholic leaders in the 1920s and 1930s who were ambivalent about fascism but saw it as far better than communism, they tend to think the sexual revolution, while tending toward regrettable excesses, is better than the «bad old days» of repressive sexual morality.

They instead are seeking to rewrite history - and the core tenets of our Constitutional freedoms - in order to lead new generations back to the bad old days of repression of individual liberties.

What I find so maddening in my efforts to negotiate the barriers between my Protestantism and my seminarians» Catholicism is that while we are united in so many of our convictions and practices, we are divided by differences real enough to make the Omega Point almost as remote as in the bad old days of open hostility between our churches.

«Since his election Pope Francis has explicitly endorsed the programme of financial reforms, which are well under way and already past the point where it would be possible to return to the «bad old days».

Actually, the world seems a much better place since those bad old days you love so much.

Lots to digest, including some deee - lightful ancedotes from the bad old days of furniture so durable you seemed to be stuck....

I'm not yearning for the bad old days of ill will among denominations.

The bad old days?

The bad old days of margarine whose production quality was difficult to control are over, thanks to one man's invention of the modern emulsifier.

Back to 1984, as it were, and there are worries that the EU may well return to the bad old days of butter mountains and milk lakes.

Please tell me we're not going back to the bad old days of drafting speedy guys that are virtually useless in every other facet of football talent.

Looking more long term though, the fact that Costa keeps having problems with his hamstring could be good news for us in the race for the Premier League title, especially if our own injury situation does not go back to the bad old days.

Because it seems to me that the bad old days of the Alex Ferguson era could be on the way back.

If McL and maybe Doug Williams were able to harness the organization's urge to go after every high - profile, washed up FA every year, do we see a return of the bad old days?

The last thing Arsenal fans want to see is for the bad old days of a few years to return and for the Gunners to lose our best players to some of the big spending football clubs around Europe, which there are more than enough of these days.

The Gunners started the season with very little to worry about on the injury front, supposedly, but things have recently begun to remind us of the bad old days.

So it is another piece of lazy punditry to hark back to the bad old days of two seasons ago.

Did we really want the Gunners to go straight back to the bad old days of being too attack minded away from home and seeing the game all but over in the first half an hour.

Some of his passing and shooting were like the bad old days, but he will sit out the game on Wednesday with a suspension and will hopefully be fired up for Leicester next weekend.

This should have been a pouncepouncepounce offseason, in which an owner who remembered the bad old days seized the opportunity to get greedy.

Reliving those bad old days, Dillon's hand shakes as he picks up a glass of iced tea.

You might have suspected that all the positivity that came about after Arsenal not only won a place in the FA cup final but produced the sort of commitment and determination that has been sadly lacking for so long would be a bit of a false dawn, but not many would have expected us to be quite so bad and back to the bad old days quite as much as we saw tonight.

I have just seen Arsene Wenger's latest injury update and it feels like we are back in the bad old days.

its a sign of intent... lpool are vulnerable at back so klopp brings in a decent centre back... we need that same attitude times 6 if we are to have a team that competes again at the top... but with the delusional corporate tool running things it will be another failed year... thats basically 14 barren years and taking us back closer to the bad old days of the 1960s when we never one a title over the decade

Blatter and FIFA remind me of the bad old days of Samaranch and the IOC.

In other words, we have not returned to the bad old days of deep - fried carnival fare in our school cafeterias.