Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...same time, around a city once described as a "model of racial harmony," residents asked what had gone wrong...
...most local experts disagree with Whelan and the government. Richard Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, calls Carter's measures "absolutely incredible" and "stupid." "The idea is just wrong," Frye says, adding, "The Iranian government is not going to be moved to release the hostages by this action." Roger Fisher '43, Williston Professor of Law, who has written extensively about the situation in Iran, argues that the White House has made "a great mistake to respond to the madness in Iran by madness over here...
...dream of economic strength has never materialized. Viet Nam today is a somber country where austere militarism remains a way of life. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss and Photographer Dirck Halstead, who both covered the Viet Nam War, recently spent 17 days in Viet Nam to assess what has gone wrong-and what is going right. De Voss 's report...
...impressive $12,390 in royalties on his book of poems, Of Sons & Seasons. Vermont's Pat Leahy made a $1,500 sale of photographs he shot in China. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, on the other hand, dropped $9,000 in the commodities market after guessing wrong on pork-belly futures...
...authors acknowledge that the most careful preparations would offer no absolute guarantee against the workings of Murphy's Law (what can go wrong, will). But, they say, the risks are clearly calculable and precautions can be taken. Their enthusiasm is apparently shared in Washington. Last week, as part of a joint program with the Department of Energy, NASA awarded a $296,000 contract to the Boeing Co. Its purpose: to start up a four-year study on the possibility of exercising the space option for ridding the earth of nuclear wastes...