Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settlement of the conflict in Indochina. The recent expansion of the war into Cambodia and Laos has made the implications of Vietnamization more and more apparent. Even if these actions were to achieve certain short. range military objectives, these are in the service of a policy that is itself unsound and immoral. Vietnamization and its concomitant political and military actions represent a continuation of the killing, the decimation, and the subjugation of the people of Indochina, with active American support and participation. We shudder at the evil that our government is committing in our names...
These take-out sandwiches and cokes from Tommy's and Hazen's and God know's where Else's are ecologically unsound. Think, if you can for this moment of the vibrant trees thrusting themselves towards the sun from the earth. yearning to breathe free like you or me, that must be cut down in the full sap of their youth to wrap a roast beef special...
Decreasing the margin on stock purchases was unsound economic policy. If stock purchased on margin goes down and the investor can't repay his broker, the broker sells the stock at the lower price to get what is owed him, plus interest. This selling off of margined stock can further depress an already bearish market and has done so for a matter of hours several times during...
...head the bank. So he left Lavoro in 1966 and was asked to run R.A.S. When another major insurance company began tying the cash value of its life policies to the cost-of-living index, Lolli was faced with keen competition. Although he considered his competitor's plans unsound, he had to offer his own clients a hedge against inflation. "I had to give my R.A.S. agents something extra to sell," says Lolli-and he decided on mutual funds...
...weighs close to 1000 pounds and runs faster than thirty- five miles-an-hour, he has lower legs that are thinner than your ankles. Most thoroughbreds have sore legs. With butazolidin or some other pain-killer a horse cannot feel anything in his leg. Unable to feel that his unsound leg is about to break, he will run until his leg gives way and he falls. Every-time a horse goes lame and tumbles during the running of a race a courageous animal has to be destroyed and the jockey risks being trampled to death. Pain-killing drugs...