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Word: misguidedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such opinions are commonly voiced in the Reagan era. What is surprising is that the voices often belong to a growing number of influential black thinkers who are vigorously challenging the liberal notions of their intellectual forebears, the black sociologists who dominated the civil rights era. Not every member of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redefining the American Dilemma | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Some critics of the Sanctuary Movement charge that its adherents are on a misguided crusade, acting as an unwitting supplier of cheap labor in the U.S. (Many of the refugees do end up working as janitors, maids and dishwashers.) Others complain that Sanctuary is abetting Marxist movements by giving a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bringing Sanctuary to Trial | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

If the public clamor for quicker, more effective action in the war on toxic wastes is fully justified, the expectation of easy or fast fixes is not. Some 66,000 chemicals are being used in the U.S.; EPA has classified 60,000 of them as potentially, if not definitely, hazardous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Problem That Cannot Be Buried | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

The State Department quickly condemned the Katakov killing, saying that "there is no place in international discourse for this kind of act." It was a correct if somewhat magnanimous gesture. The Soviet Union has never condemned the kidnaping of American citizens by terrorists, preferring to suggest that U.S. travails in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Loses Its Immunity | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

At many universities, Star Wars has generated echoes of the 1960s protests against campus military research. This time, however, the dissension is led not by radical leftist undergraduates but by professors and graduate students. Anti-Star Wars petitions are circulating on at least 48 campuses, from the University of Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star Wars Sweepstakes | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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