Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Wrong Prince...
Laird: The solution to the manpower problem is largely in the compensation area. Until you solve that you are not going to get the kind of people that this nation needs for a proper military deterrent. The military should compete for qualified, well-trained personnel. There is something wrong with a society like ours that is unwilling to pay adequate salaries for personnel in the military services...
...Begin of causing damage abroad, of joining forces with Israel's accusers. We are in the worst public opinion situation in the world, especially in Europe and the U.S., and I don't think it should have been that way.In many respects I think the U.S. is wrong in some of its attitudes toward Israel. I don't think the American people realize the great sacrifices we have made for the peace treaty. Mr. Begin wrote that in his letter. In that respect he is right. But we are the ones who have to present...
...more vocal controversy this spring, the University showed the hypocrisy of its appointment policies. Bok nominated efficiency-oriented Chicago economist Arnold C. Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) without consulting the HIID Faculty Council--or considering that it might be wrong for a professor whose policies enacted in Chile caused starvation and misery to lead an institution that advises foreign governments...
Unless government takes the steps today to channel the fears of Americans towards the right sacrifices--and insures that all segments of society chip in--we will end up making the wrong ones for decades to come. We will fight wars to defend a national interest determined in a few corporate boardrooms. We will continue to polarize our society economically so that a handful maintain their standard of consumption while many sink into an abyss of hopeless misery. Worst of all, as we struggle to save the least desirable qualities of the American way of life, we will lose hold...