Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...mean, what could possibly be wrong with little flecks of white scalp-skin? If Head & Shoulders implied that grey hair would ruin a first impression, the AARP would sic a team of silver topped lawyers on them in a minute...
Another common argument against complete divestment is that if the Corporation adopts this policy, it will not make as much money, resulting in higher costs for students. This argument is simply wrong; Harvard can transfer its investment in South Africa-related businesses to firms that do not deal with South Africa. Losses resulting from the transfer of funds would be minimal--far less than what Harvard loses on a bad day in the stock market...
Heymann's appointment as a special investigatoris grounded in recent sports precedent. Within thepast two years, baseball commissioners haveappointed special counsels to conduct inquiriesinto alleged wrong-doings by Cincinnati Redsmanager Pete Rose and New York Yankees ownerGeorge Steinbrenner...
...Hollywood sometimes seems to have almost as many closeted skeletons as the Kremlin. Consider now the luxuriant scandal surrounding Paul Bern, an MGM producer who was found shot to death in 1932 shortly after his marriage to his prize star, Jean Harlow. A suicide note apologized for "the frightful wrong I have done you." MGM boss Louis B. Mayer tried to protect Harlow by spreading the word that Bern had been impotent and killed himself in shame. After a minimal investigation, the coroner's jury declared that Bern had committed suicide with "motive undetermined." End of scenario...
Such threats certainly cannot be lightly dismissed. Saddam Hussein is said to believe that he personally could survive even a war as terrible as he plans, hiding in one of several secret Soviet-built bunkers in Baghdad while most of Iraq goes up in flames. He may be wrong in that calculation, and in believing that Iraq could take the pounding longer than the U.S. and its allies could withstand economic devastation and the arrival back home of thousands of body bags. But proving him wrong might be possible only by paying a ghastly price...