Word: incorrect
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With one politically correct assertion, she chucked the struggle of my life into the garbage heap of politically incorrect generalizations...
...such "industrial policy" proposals were floated in Washington. Never mind that many strategic industries in Japan and Europe, boosted at crucial moments by government support, were winning market share from their American counterparts. Reagan's opposition to industrial policy was so fierce that the expression itself had become politically incorrect by the decade's end. During the 1988 campaign, George Bush derided such policy as a foolish "Democratic" approach that usually resulted in wasted taxpayer money, commercial failure or both...
Peninsula members interviewed yesterday said they found Clark's interpretation of the views expressed in their magazine to be surprising and incorrect...
...Chicago-based Midway Airlines, the 12th largest U.S. carrier. Midway suddenly ceased operations after much larger Northwest Airlines pulled out of a $153 million merger deal that would have rescued the bankrupt Chicago airline, which was started in 1979. Northwest said it backed out because it had been given incorrect revenue data. But Midway is weighing a lawsuit. The collapse put Midway's 4,300 employees into unemployment lines and left passengers stranded in many of the 41 cities Midway had served...
...morally repugnant." (He didn't say why.) b. Homosexuals "have no regard for the family." (He didn't say how he knew.) c. The family is "the basic building block ... of legitimate government." (He didn't mention which part of Locke's First Treatise on Government was therefore incorrect.) d. Copulation is the "most base of all human instincts." (He didn't say why.) e. Homosexuals' definition of self is "irrevocably linked" to that instinct. (He didn't say how he knew.) f. This irrevocable linkage notwithstanding, the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Students Association is "just another extracurricular activity...