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Word: misguidedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calling it "an unfortunate trend in American Judaism today" for Jews to congregate socially, he creates a fright-eningly anti-semitic image of the fraternity which comes across as naive and misguided.

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Need to Go National? | 10/17/1989 | See Source »

THE majority opinion reads more like a press release by the Congressional office of Barney Frank (D-Mass.) or an ad written by those already working for his re-election than an editorial. It mainly recites Rep. Frank's superlative legislative record. That kind of reaction is just as political...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Excuses, Excuses | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

While the occasional street activist will inevitably mumble something about "yankee imperialism" and "ruthless American multinationals," the vast majority of Argentines know better: namely that throughout the past 45 years, their economy, along with the Soviet Union's, has been the world's most mismanaged. In fact, Argentina has become...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Can Argentina Make It Back? | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

Many feminists call the effort politically misguided. They argue that it gives the wrong impression that abortion is already illegal and unobtainable. They are also concerned that it diverts attention from their battle to keep abortion legal. Whether that battle is won or lost, the pursuit of self-help abortions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Abortions Without Doctors | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

Still, the productions were mostly brief and small-scale, the livelihood far from lavish. "The least hint of the starving-artist routine," he recalls, "did not behoove my immigrant legacy of belief in education and upward mobility." In 1983, when he was 26, Hwang suffered the sort of crisis of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HENRY HWANG: When East And West Collide | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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