Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...beginning of the game was a culmination of everything that's gone wrong in our first four games," Greenberg said. "We get the rebound, we're staring at the rim and we miss and miss and miss. We couldn't get the ball to drop...
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1981). In his third incarnation as the titular hero of an Updike novel, Harold C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom makes good money selling Japanese cars (Toyotas) to Americans. Still, something has gone wrong in Rabbit's native land, and Updike's valedictory to the late 1970s creates an unforgettable comedy of diminishing expectations...
Most likely to put the Post Office out of business. Futurists predicted that electronic mail -- computers talking to computers -- would soon replace the stamped envelope. They turned out to be wrong. The true expression of 21st century communications is one fax machine talking to another. Modern high- speed facsimile technology has opened the telephone lines to everything from blueprints to fingerprints, including unsolicited, unwanted faxes -- the 1980s version of junk mail...
...millions of other Americans -- bought the videocassette recorder with the one-month, eight- program calendar timer and standby one-touch record. Once you have mastered the owner's manual, a lifetime task for some, you just shove in a tape and press a few dozen buttons. What could go wrong...
...Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia -- a disbelieving but increasingly hopeful world watched and waited for a crackdown that never came. In every case, the disintegration of the communist system was hastened by economic crises. Marx was right: politics is driven by economics. But his 20th century followers were spectacularly wrong. A command economy can grow only by exploiting farmers and workers; eventually there is no incentive for the workers to work or the farmers to farm in a society in which they have no say in the allocation of resources. Giving them a say means giving them a voice...