Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...trying to vote themselves out of the U.S.S.R. three weeks ago, the members of the Lithuanian parliament were making three statements: Here is what our people want; here is what we deserve; here is how to get it. They were right, right and wrong...
However well-intentioned shoppers may be, so-called biodegradable products "foster precisely the wrong attitude," says Jim Middaugh, a spokesman for the Environmental Defense Fund. "They foster the idea that throwing stuff away is a good idea." Not all manufacturers have gone the degradable route. Procter & Gamble plans to expand the use of recycled plastic in making containers for Liquid Tide and Cheer. Smart companies know which way the wind is blowing...
...Absolutely wrong. It had a profit because it sold a branch. Lincoln was a basket case...
...their savings and loans than lose their respectability, end up like I am, hounded, harassed, broke. I'm being slammed and ridiculed and called a thief and a bum and a liar. They even tied me into Noriega for forming a Panamanian company to do business in England. Nothing wrong with any part of it. The committee flat said I was doing drugs. Lincoln made a loan to Covenant House, and I waived one of the interest payments on the building which housed these poor kids, and the next thing I know I'm accused of funneling that money through...
...argument with Mr. Thomas, a light clicked on in my head. Three years ago, the Internal Revenue Service had snooped around my neighborhood asking about a Michael G. Riley and his horrendous credit history. After many phone calls, the IRS admitted it had the wrong man. Perhaps my deadbeat namesake had returned to haunt my credit rating. Hearing this tale, Mr. Thomas softened a bit and told me to send him some identifying papers. Then he dropped another bombshell: Citibank, he said, had discovered a "death alert" filed on my Social Security number in 1981. So not only...