Word: unsound
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...virulent disease. Half a dozen agencies?including the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission?have begun investigations of the phenomenon. They are worried that the takeover companies may be creating too much concentration of economic power, that some of them have unsound financing and inadequate management, and that they may tempt many shareholders into trading solid stocks for flossy packages of paper...
...mandate increasing the already enormous power of the Dean of the Faculty. It would encourage him to set up new administrative apparatus that would accumulate data on departmental costs, to take a bigger role in allocating new professorships, and to call on the carpet those departments that make economically unsound policy decisions...
...contraception is, in effect, an ironical move to weaken further a basic principle of the Christian faith: that every human life has worth. It has always been the tendency (whether sound or unsound) to value items in proportion to their multiplicity or scarcity-value increasing with the rarity of the object and decreasing with its abundance. Thus the explosion of the population has tended to cheapen human life in the eyes of many. It becomes increasingly difficult to say "thou" to a mass of flesh that bumps and pushes and encroaches more and more on free space, sacred privacy...
...oust governments, courts and all. This self-contradictory sort of theory-all decked out in the forms of law with thick papers, strings of precedent, and the rest-is ultimately at the heart of the plaintiffs' case." It was not surprising that Frankel found their case both "unsound" and "untenable...
...questions now troubling the nation are, "Should an ailing politician be given a drug to remedy his malady before an election race even though the medicine is intended to treat his illness rather than stimulate him to run more effectively? Would this not be tantamount to making an unsound person sound for a certain length of time...