Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...administrators in Massachusetts Hall needed. As if everything surrounding their plans to provide cheap energy to the Medical Area hadn't already gone wrong, now the guys who run the plant had gone out on strike...
...identifying a central question: Why does America hate Washington? "It has become a byword for the country's problems," says Rosenblatt. "People abuse it, make fun of it, and presidential candidates campaign against it. You ask almost anyone in this country to tell you what's wrong, and he'll say Washington...
...evidence of the decline in America's morals, Trippett catalogues examples of public skepticism as to the claims of various pitchmen, politicians and bureaucrats. Yet what is wrong with a public attitude of self-reliant doubt? Would a country of credulous gulls be more moral? He also points a finger at the "relaxation of moral codes" as a reason for "increased deception." Yet this famous "relaxation" means in practice that Americans have been freed from 19th century sexual taboos - and 19th century hypocrisy. Finally, when was this Golden Age when Americans did not attempt to con and cheat...
Williams, who will plead not guilty ("I did nothing wrong"), is the only Senator who has been charged in Abscam. Two Congressmen have been tried and found guilty. Four others are awaiting trial. Unlike the convicted Congressmen, Democrats Michael Myers of Pennsylvania and John Jenrette Jr. of South Carolina, Williams is not accused of accepting cash. The mining company shares were of little value at the time, but the Government contends that Williams promised to help the titanium company get defense contracts, which would have made the shares valuable...
There is something terribly wrong with our priorities, and if we are ever going to take back the night we are going to have to do it in the middle of the day. Our inconsistencies do not lurk in the shadows, but stand openly in broad daylight. They exist not only "out there" on a national level, but right here at Harvard as well. Why does a University which expends so much energy recruiting MidWesterners, football players, and alumni children fail to meet affirmative action guidelines? Why do we spend $40,000 on afunctional "kiosks" when we do not have...