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Word: wrongful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other Democrats for the embarrassment he was causing. The audience's eyes were not averted as usual, says one Congressman, because "Barney was living in a different world in 1985 that most of us don't understand . . . We have all been stupid when we have fallen for the wrong person. Most of us were lucky enough to do it when we were younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Skeleton in Barney's Closet | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...celebration. But some had also already reined in their expectations about what any mayor, black or white, can achieve. "With the Dinkins victory, there is hope," says Utrice Leid, managing editor of the City Sun, a Brooklyn-based newspaper aimed at a black readership. "But so much is desperately wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope, Not Fear | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...might have a membership value of 0.7, while Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (7 ft. 2 in.) might have a 0.99. Zadeh and his students went on to elaborate a full fuzzy mathematics, devising precise rules for combining vague expressions like "somewhat fast," "very hot" and "usually wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Time For Some Fuzzy Thinking | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...State Department, there was speculation that Baker might actually function as an unofficial Deputy President. A former Treasury Secretary, White House chief of staff and three-time presidential campaign chairman, Baker was expected to be the power next to the throne. That conjecture has so far been wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vision Problems at State: James Baker | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Unfortunately, things go wrong, and word leaks out about the covert action. With the election months away, the administration panics and decides to cut its losses, covering up the operation and abandoning its para-military groups deep in the Columbian jungle. Sound really, really familiar...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Uncanny Realism | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

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