Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...problem always defined in terms of "What women are doing wrong (or failing to do) in class?" Why not address the real problem--sections dominated by a few people who are overly aggressive...I'm tired of being told that women are too passive and that I must conform to a standard I don't value...
...didn't want to run the wrong way and go into the record books," said Gordian, who had lost his bearings because he was surrounded by so many Harvard players...
...first harsh light of revelation, news that the Hubble Space Telescope was flawed appeared to be an unmitigated disaster. Because the telescope's main light-focusing mirror had been precision ground to the wrong specifications, the U.S. had evidently spent $1.5 billion on an instrument that may never take the promised supersharp pictures of the heavens...
...once again, Nobel touts were caught looking at the wrong continents. Less than an hour before Paz became the winner of the $700,000 prize, rumors were still spreading that the odds-on favorite was Chinese poet Bei Dao. If not he, then possibly Canada's Margaret Atwood, Ireland's Seamus Heaney or the U.S.'s perennial long shot, Joyce Carol Oates...
What about an electoral system that produces consistent underrepresentation of minority office-holders? If whites are in an overall majority in a district which contains a large number of minority-dominated sub-districts, is there anything wrong with their electing all whites? That's majority rule, right...