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Word: misguidedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The consequences of U.S. intervention in Kampuchea have made a mockery of American intentions before, and they could do so again. The emergence of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge was partly a result of misguided American policy 20 years ago. Richard Nixon's secret bombing of Kampuchea in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Defanging the Beast | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

A. I like talking about things that happen in my life if I think I can make me the butt of the joke. But I'm not crazy about actually talking about real things in my life: the women in my life, or my own political feelings and beliefs, limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview :David Letterman He's No Johnny Carson | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Laquidara won his biggest convert last week when Mayor Ray Flynn signed an order making Boston the first U.S. city to ban municipal purchases of Shell products. The move is largely symbolic: the city has done only $2,500 in business with Shell in two years. Calling the action "misguided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APARTHEID PROTESTS: Strike Up The Boycott | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

Sen. Joseph McCarthy is dead and buried; so should be his ignorant and unfair assumptions about Soviet policy and motives. The staff position, though not maliciously anti-Soviet, is still misguided in its apparent unreadiness to regard Gorbachev's proposals as legitimate. While we agree that both sides should be...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Dissent | 12/14/1988 | See Source »

In accordance with his misguided understanding of Israel's legitimacy, Sharfstein misinterprets the widespread response to the "who is a Jew" issue. The American Jewish community did not unify in the name of a "higher standard" but rather for an equal standard. The supporters of the new law hope to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel | 12/10/1988 | See Source »

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