Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrong, we're wrong," he wrote. "A lot of people won't admit it and never will, but we're wrong...
...Democrats--most of them early middle-aged, well-off and politically progressive--have gathered to hear Bradley. It's September, before the pundits notice Bradley's surge, so only a few national reporters are on hand. Standing near a hanging plant, Bradley's about to begin, but something's wrong. "Do we have to have the TV on?" he asks. A crew has the camera rolling, its lights in his eyes. "I'd kind of like to see the people," he says. "Shine the light on the people!" He may be the only candidate in Iowa who'd rather...
Lily Eskelsen is a 20-year veteran of parent-teacher conferences, both in her years of teaching sixth grade at Orchard Elementary School, just outside Salt Lake City, and as the mother of two sons. She says both the ingratiators and the intimidators have it wrong because they're concerned with power relationships rather than partnership. "Parents," she says, "should think of themselves as part of a team with the teacher and the child"--and shouldn't tussle over who gets to be quarterback...
...commerce, they're all interested in the future of your wallet. Says Dan Burke, senior analyst at Gomez Advisors, a rater of e-commerce sites: "We're just getting to the really interesting part, where we see who's doing it right and who's doing it wrong...
...Scholastic Assessment Test is like the riddle of the Sphinx, an ordeal by questions that can make further progress on the road of life very iffy. Right answers put you on your way to Prestige U. The wrong ones could give you a lifelong personal stake in the debate over the minimum wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup...