Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...service paid it in the second editorial. All people concerned with human liberty, as the eight signators of the second editorial surely consider themselves, have an obligation to speak out vigorously on this issue. To speak instead of a freedom which our society has already granted is not wrong, it is just too easy...
Shouldn't the unemployment rate [May 12] make the auto industry sit down and think what it did wrong by not producing the cars the consumers really needed? Our market is becoming vulnerable to foreign competitors who have more knowledge than...
...squad of plainclothes detectives seeking a drug suspect burst into the home of Nathaniel La Fleur, a respected black Miami schoolteacher. Although La Fleur protested loudly that the police had the wrong house, the officers beat both the teacher and his son Hollis, 20. Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno, who had once earned black respect as a liberal sympathetic to their complaints, failed to secure an indictment from a grand jury. She said the police had made "a dumb mistake...
...reason is that voters now seem to be heeding warnings by public officials that another deep reduction in taxes would endanger vital government services, such as education and police and fire protection. Similar gloomy prophecies proved spectacularly wrong after Proposition 13 passed in 1978. But the state had a $5 billion surplus then, most of which it made available to the city and county governments dependent on property taxes to soften the impact of Proposition 13. Now the state's surplus is down to about $2.6 billion. Opponents of Proposition 9 argue that by slashing income tax revenues...
...woman is ever too slim or too rich," goes a popular adage. It may be wrong. Though the obese definitely run greater risks of hypertension, heart attacks, diabetes and other ills, the very thin are not necessarily any healthier. Studying data collected on 5,209 men and women during a 24-year study, National Institutes of Health Epidemiologist Paul Sorlie and his colleagues confirmed that the obese had higher death rates than those of average weight, but they were surprised by similar high mortality rates for the underweight. The finding could not be explained by such factors as the amount...