Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just thought that healthy skepticism of authority was what distinguished the American media from the preglasnost Soviet press. We thought students would appreciate a questioning attitude toward the Harvard administration. We were wrong...
...real burden fell on Nicaragua. The U.S. strategy proved excruciatingly slow and extremely expensive, and it inflicted the most pain on the wrong people. The past ten years have savaged the country's civilians, not its comandantes. Since 1985 Washington has strangled Nicaraguan trade with an embargo. It has cut off Nicaragua's credit at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The contra war cost Managua tens of millions and left the country with wrecked bridges, sabotaged power stations and ruined farms. The impoverishment of the people of Nicaragua was a harrowing way to give the National Opposition...
...anything wrong with displaying Russian symbols," countered a burly young man. "We have a right to our own traditions...
...National fronts were formed in almost every part of the country to advance ethnic, linguistic and cultural causes. Marx and Lenin had held that life under socialism would submerge such differences in the sea of workers' internationalist unity. As has so often been the case, Marxist-Leninist theory was wrong...
...days -- perhaps more than they can properly handle. Prompted by fears of everything from AIDS and Lyme disease to high cholesterol, record numbers of people are lining up to give a blood sample and get back the good news, or bad. Too frequently, though, the news is just plain wrong. Several recent studies have revealed disturbing sloppiness or simple error in the way some blood tests are conducted and interpreted...