Word: amissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first indication that something was amiss at MTV came, as it usually does in the TV world, from the A.C. Nielsen Co. At the height of its popularity in 1983 and '84 (when Michael Jackson's Thriller was a hit attraction), MTV's ratings hovered between 1% and 1.2% of its potential audience. By the fall of 1985, the ratings had sunk to .6%, and they have not improved much since. MTV executives dispute the numbers, claiming that Nielsen's sample underrepresents males between the ages of twelve and 24, an important segment of its audience...
...folks in Rawhide Village, a subdivision near Gillette, Wyo., figured something was amiss back in February when they found they could set fire to cracks in the street. Methane, it developed, was surfacing from coal deposits below. So was stinking -- and sickening -- hydrogen sulfide. By this month, with the hydrogen sulfide causing illnesses and the methane turning into a serious fire hazard, the Campbell County commission ordered some 180 families to evacuate by July 31. "Unlike a disaster such as a flood, you can't see it," says County Commissioner Tom Ostlund, who is seeking federal disaster funds...
Sprague first sensed something was amiss when he told Breuning about his difficulty in getting two nurses to agree more than 80% of the time on the severity of mentally ill patients' symptoms. "What's wrong with you?" Sprague recalls one of Bruening's co-workers saying. "We get 100% agreement." That idle boast of scientific exactitude -- a virtual impossibility -- persuaded Sprague to look back through his colleague's research and then to contact the NIMH, which had funded both Breuning's and Sprague's work...
...strengthen defense and give people more to spend through tax cuts. Says Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion analyst: "They were uneasy about doing so because they suspected that millions of poor people would get hurt, but they accepted the Reagan approach because they agreed that something was badly amiss with the liberal theory of Government-backed entitlements. But Reagan's personal 'goodness' seemed to guarantee that it was not a Scrooge-like thing to do. As long as Reagan was credible, his solutions were acceptable...
...discovery that funds had been diverted to the contras. Ed Meese came to me last week and first told me of the possibility of something being amiss. He gave me an idea of what it was. Late Monday afternoon he came to see me, and he said that what he had suspected was true, what he had told me earlier was right. He said, "Here...