Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...They're trying to repair the problem by coming at the wrong end," says Joel Segal, an executive vice president of the ad agency McCann-Erickson. "I don't see how bringing in a third person will help bring up the first...
What went wrong? Confidence. The sales revealed a buyers' backlash against controversial practices by the auctioneers, notably that of giving guarantees to owners in order to acquire works to sell. This technique -- which Sotheby's invented and Christie's denounced with high sanctimony in 1989, before quietly adopting it themselves in 1990 -- has produced a string of "pre-auction auctions" among the houses competing for merchandise. It means that the winning house, in order to fulfill its guarantee, has to pump its estimate higher and higher to hype expectation...
...people think this is a problem only of big inner-city hospitals, they are wrong. They may be dead wrong," says Dr. Stephan Lynn, the director of the emergency department at Manhattan's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. It is true that there are healthy suburban hospitals that have been largely spared the city's crises. But many rural hospitals are also swamped with trauma cases: farming, fishing and forestry are the most dangerous occupations in America. Isolated from major urban centers, rural hospitals are struggling to recruit and train emergency physicians and to pay for the sophisticated trauma networks...
...wrong--I like knowing that I attend the school that has the most varsity women's sports programs in the nation. The most meaningful sporting event in my four years at Harvard happened last weekend--the women's lacrosse team won the national title. And it is satisfying to know that the outstanding athletes in my class--Char Joslin and Meredith Rainey--are women...
...depot. They've got no destinations, but they keep moving. You have to have the pelotas to get on one, and the wisdom to know whether it's going in the right direction, and the courage to jump off and do something about it if it's | the wrong direction. And most people don't. Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact. I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They...