Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...fuel, which is the main cause of the rising air fares. Local officials fear that Hawaii may become a resort only for the very wealthy. Says Paul DeDomenico, president of Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co.: "Some people say that tourism in Hawaii depends on the rich. That's wrong. It depends on the middle class...
Martin sent memos fluttering to the top of the ABC Building in Manhattan. The network did two things: it launched its own internal inquiry, and it fired Martin for "unfinished and sloppy work." That ABC investigation found nothing wrong. Apparently concerned that Martin would send her memos to the authorities, however, ABC Counsel Frank Rothman gave his findings to Van De Kamp in October 1979. Since then the TV world has been waiting for the D.A. to pounce. Instead he issued an 81-page report that found the main culprits to be sloppy business practices and a kind of Alice...
...midst of a heated debate at Adams House on whether to break the ten-year student boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), one undergraduate wondered out loud, "Does anyone really know what's wrong with CRR?" An awkward silence followed...
...Reagan people and their friends on Capitol Hill are on the wrong track already, thinking that what we called for was a return to 'normalcy,'" says Howard Phillips, head of the Conservative Caucus, a low-profile organization that helps set the New Right's agenda and sees that it receives attention throughout the country...
...robot, which has just been licensed by General Electric, is assembling a compressor valve unit from twelve separate parts. Its two arms can do totally different jobs at once. When it picks up a slightly defective gasket in its gray steel claw, it immediately senses something wrong, flicks the gasket to one side and picks up another. The Pragma produces 320 units an hour, without mistakes, and it can labor tirelessly for 24 hours a day. That makes it roughly the equivalent of ten human workers. Furthermore, it can easily be reprogrammed to assemble TV sets or electric motors...