Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IT WOULD be misguided to muster up much sympathy for Shields, who, when she does unpack her bags in Princeton, will undoubtedly manage both the People press corps and a flock of undergraduate humor editors with her customary photogenic aplomb. More pity is due Princeton and its otherwise august members...
Whatever Reagan's convictions on arms control-however sincere, however misguided-they do not amount to a grand obsession with him. That could be a blessing in disguise. It could make it easier for him to modify and moderate the policies that have been pursued in his name. At...
The historical punning proved misguided. The crisis fizzled with a whimper, euphemistically dubbed a "minor realignment" of the exchange rates crucial to European trade. Yet the image lingers: French Finance Minister Jacques Delors attacking the "arrogance and insensitivity" of his German colleagues while threatening to leave the European Monetary System...
Not surprisingly, however there are those who fought hard for last month's decision. A group attorneys, largely those involved in litigation, believed that the proposed rule would undermine the adversary system by making the client less willing to confide in his lawyer, since he would be aware that the...
During her two-week stay in EI Salvador last summer, writer Joan Didion must have gotten angry too. But she channeled this emotion productively and produced Salvador, an account of her visit to a country that is slowly being destroyed by inbred antagonisms and the misguided efforts of other nations...