Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...crazy days to have a bike race," said John R. Moot a member of People for Riverbend Park. "Mothers' Day is the first real day the park is open. It seems wrong that Mr. Trump, no matter who he is, can preempt our use of the park...
...administration could miss a chance at remedying a long-standing wrong by opting for gratifying the obscene wishes of some present economic royalist for an undeserved immortality. The student body could take pride in the Roosevelt Center as it couldn't under any circumstances in the Trump Center or Milken Center...
...Government policy is a step in exactly the wrong direction: toward less student-faculty contact and more alienation in an already institutional department. Only months after Richard J. Light, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, concluded that students who miss the benefits of the College's advising system are victims of their own negligience or shyness, the Government Department has ratified a policy which will only alienate its undergraduates...
...were depicted in the press, and I think it's outrageous. The press has to capsulize things that people can absorb. The fact is, Drexel became the major source of capital for industrial companies in the country. Even our worst enemies think only a handful of people did anything wrong, so it's unfair to the vast majority of people at Drexel to lump them into a two-word tag line. The damage that's been done is absolutely unjustified. We grew quickly and we stepped on toes. But we did no more than other investment banks did when they...
...destruction of Drexel at some point became inevitable. I'll accept the responsibility, and if I knew we had done things that were wrong, I would accept blame. What happened was a confluence of events, starting with the federal investigation ((of Drexel's junk-bond department)) and hitting a climax when the firm was forced to plead guilty and pay what we thought were unnecessarily high penalties (($650 million)). Congress then changed the rules by requiring savings and loans to sell their high-yield bonds, and the market for those securities fell. Then Drexel faced yet another rule change, when...