Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Otherwise, Civiletti acknowledged no wrong. A day earlier, Joel Lisker, who heads the Justice Department's foreign agents registration unit, had raised several questions in the Senators' minds. He recalled that on June 11, when he told Civiletti that Billy Carter had admitted receiving $220,000 from the Libyans, the Attorney General had ordered him to "wait ten days and see what happens." Six days later, as Civiletti has said, he warned the President that his brother was "foolish" for not registering as a foreign agent (Billy finally did so on July...
...treatment." This seemed to mollify the Senators, even acerbic Republican Robert Dole of Kansas. Said he of the Justice Department's treatment of Billy: "You look at it one way and it looks very bad, and you look at it another way, and there's nothing much [wrong]." Some Senators clearly were beginning to believe that the probe was much ado about nothing...
...millinery store that Henri Bendel started in 1890 had fallen out of step with fast-changing fashions. It was on the "wrong" side of Fifth Avenue and was losing a staggering $1.5 million a year on sales of $3 million. W. Maxey Jarman, then chairman of Ge-nesco, Inc., a Nashville-based apparel conglomerate, snapped up the indebted store and turned it over to an unlikely boss: Geraldine Stutz, a onetime model and shoe editor at Glamour, who had successfully run the advertising for Genesco's I. Miller shoe stores. After reluctantly deciding to accept the job, Stutz swept...
...good track record. Some charge that he has turned the investment advisory service into cheap entertainment. Granville often conveniently forgets that he was unabashedly bullish during the long market slide of 1973 and 1974. Says one critic: "Joe gives the appearance of being infallible. The next time he is wrong, he'll take a lot of unsophisticated investors down with...
...successors, suggesting that they don't make them like that any more. Well, they don't. A man not afraid to be caught reasoning in print, Lippmann intellectually dominated the editorial pages of American newspapers for a half-century. On-the-other-hands were not for him: wrong he might sometimes be, but rarely uncertain...