Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROPONENTS of randomization have resorted to hackneyed generalizations to support their argument. Their reasoning on this issue is both misguided and divisive.
Maybe longer. Rifkin, 44, enjoys most the college lectures that often have him flying two to four times a week. One recent swing took the Rifkin show to Alfred University in upstate New York. As usual, he charmed and joked, provoked and pleased. He lectured the freshman class about the...
HOWEVER, what was most immediately repugnant about the COCA memo I received last week was the attitude it conveyed and, more particularly, the scare tactics it employed to conjure up images of another Vietnam War. Yet these scare tactics seemed woefully misguided--after all, Vietnam was a time when thousands...
Racism in the crude sense does not necessarily motivate people to misinform pollsters, Hickman says. Rather, some respondents succumb to a misguided urge to give answers they think will please the questioner. Whatever the reason, pollsters in black-white contests should learn to take the discrepancy into account -- at least...
The tortuous nature of that language was hardly unplanned. It is not difficult to imagine the misguided logic by which charitable organizations that fund Arab groups will be defined as acting "for the denial of the existence of the state of Israel."