Word: misguidedness
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It was a telling moment in an investigation that has largely escaped public notice, unfolding in a bureaucratic arena more typically characterized by paper than passion. But nothing about this investigation is ordinary-not the players, not the stakes, not even the FCC's behavior. One of its own commissioners...
3. Affirmative action policies were misguided from their conception because:
Referring to a 1991 rash of inci- dents in which college newspapers were sent adsdenying that the Holocaust occurred, Foxman saidthat college students were often misguided inapplying liberal principles of free speech.
I applaud you for your insightful report on how trader Nicholas Leeson single-handedly brought down Barings, the venerable London-based investment bank [Cover Story, March 13]. You captured the vapid and temporal nature of expatriate high life in Singapore, of which Leeson was a part. Managers of companies dealing...
Why this trend? Partly iconoclasm. Partly a misguided attempt at social awareness--often social awareness of a distinct, politically correct kind.