Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as the security crackdown went into effect, newspapers and government ministers took aim at the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID), the U.S.-based organization accused of funneling money and arms to the I.R.A. "The bomb," noted a Daily Mirror editorial, "may have been planted by an Irish terrorist, but...
As with its domestic policy there is a pronounced degree of me-firstism in the Reaganite Foreign polices, of the feeling that is acceptable-if not preferable-that America solve the problems of the world itself. On many foreign policy fronts, from Central America to East West relations, one notices...
WHILE reasons for this chain of events are complex, one common theme has emerged--resentment over the Administration's misguided attempt, through backing of the contras, to topple the Sandinistas. Moreover, deft Nicaraguan diplomacy has left the United States in the unenviable position of refusing a peace treaty--that profered...
As soon as Nolte arrives at school, a huge dose of parental gravity gets overlayed on the cellophane. Hiller and screenwriter W. R. McKinney (an alias if there ever were one) possess Social Consciousness. They want to make a statement about an Important Issue, like those movies about bedwetting and...
She realizes that her romantic fantasies of being rescued by an anonymous male have been sadly misguided; the possible saviors now splashing in her vicinity all strike her as suspicious and sinister, "as if each of those men had been daydreaming for years of a woman to whom what had...