Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In a TV marketplace that seems to be operating with fewer and fewer restraints, it is ironic that advertisers have become the new guardians of quality. The trouble is: Whose definition of quality? Campaigns against "tasteless" shows usually come from the most conservative elements of American society. One pressure group...
Even to label genes as defective can be dangerous. In the 19th century new discoveries about heredity and evolution gave rise to the eugenics movement -- a misguided pseudo science whose followers thought that undesirable traits should be systematically purged from the human gene pool. Believers ranged from the American eugenicists...
Jewett hopes to present the class of 1993 with a fait accompli: 50 percent randomization. Not only does the staff position endorse this misguided proposal, but it condones the dean's decision to ignore the members of the Harvard community directly affected by the plan.
Now to the other half of the problem. Many law faculty members, and here the critical legal studies people are clearly the worst offenders, not only do not appreciate or understand what it means to prove something, but they believe it is wrongheaded to try to do so. For the...
At first glance, this double standard seems baffling. Does not deciding that principles of fairness and diversity for the community's good vary from house to house--or end when local domain begins--verge on arrogance, or at least misguided stubbornness?