Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet legislators say officials knew the nuclear plant was unsound and that the truth about the disaster -- including bungled relief efforts -- is still being concealed...
...cheaper; they don't break; they absorb well and they worked fine for our grandparents. Don't accept bags when you buy things--bring your own if you need one. Use recycled paper; the Boston Food Co-op in Allston sells a limited selection, along with many other environmentally unsound products. Another good source is the Earth Care Paper Company in Wisconsin...
...fact, the Monthly often scolds the rest of journalism about unsound practices, with access being a particular bugaboo. It dutifully acknowledged the errors two months later -- after others had repeated them. Editor Charles Peters now says his writers usually do check with people they criticize. "The time you don't do it," he adds, "is when everyone knows what the other guy would say. Even then, it should be done...
...concern voiced by The Times--no matter how ill-placed, no matter how journalistically unsound--was evidenced in the confirmation hearings for William Lucas, President Bush's nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. A former sheriff, admittedly poorly-versed in social law, Lucas was denied approval for the post of assistant attorney general by the Senate Judiciary Committee. After the vote, conservative white senators accused their liberal counterparts of reverse racism for expecting a Black to be necessarily liberal and pro-affirmative action...
...abortion at least under some circumstances may be wide spread, but the trimester system established in Roe to enforce the legality of abortion is too problematic to endure. As Chief Justice Rehnquist noted, "We have not refrained from reconsideration of a prior construction of the Constitution that has proved `unsound in principle and unworkable in practice.' We think the Roe trimester framework falls into that category...