Word: misguidedness
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And I say this as someone who went on WBAI last year knowing I'd be a punching bag. I'd written a screed about misguided support for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal and was attacked on-air as a lazy corporate-media hack. They were wrong, of course...
But there are a growing number of people with a taste for advanced medical technology--and money to burn--who are possibly being misguided by the hype of an alternative to the traditional annual exam. I call it the executive physical: a battery of noninvasive tests using the newest, most...
Unlike the electricity squeeze, the tight market for gas has less to do with misguided government than with classic boom-and-bust economics. In the late '90s, as the price of gas mirrored oil's downward spiral, few banks or drillers were willing to risk the capital to hunt for...
But the most difficult part of his work is dealing with amateurs who make earnest but misguided proposals. His job is to provide thorough and rigorous evaluation of proposed research projects, even if that feedback is negative.
Such sentiments are less than encouraging for the aspiring Harvard critic-or critical professor. It may in fact be that academic impulse to perfect poetry, to make it the carefully crafted product of a deliberate mind, is misguided. "The thing people don't realize is that poetry is not cerebral...