Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there, on the border, next door. This is an inevitable consequence of the tremendous asymmetry that exists between Mexico and the U.S. We have to think obsessively, constantly, recurrently about the U.S. The U.S. only thinks about us every now and then, and most of the time for the wrong reasons...
...L.D.P. legislator suggested that the consumption tax would be less painful if it were an even 4% instead of 3%. Another party member said farmers were only intelligent enough to do manual work. Credit for the greatest blunder, however, went to Agriculture Minister Hisao Horinouchi, who said, "It is wrong for women to come to the forefront of politics." Pausing just long enough to take one foot out of his mouth and insert the other, Horinouchi then attacked Doi, the popular Socialist leader. "British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is an exception, but she has a husband and children," Horinouchi asserted...
...ever cross the mind of the people who run Israeli intelligence that something might go wrong? We have to believe yes. Is it too much then to ask whether, upon discovering possible faults in its plan, Israel knew that it was in a no-lose situation...
...awake sweating in the middle of the night, having dreamt that I was trapped in the movable stacks of Pusey Library while researching what Milton had for breakfast the day he started writing Paradise Lost. I thought publish or perish only applied to junior professors seeking tenure. I was wrong...
...added that his likely candidacy for treasurer and the ballot campaign naturally go together, particularly if Crane seeks another term. "I can very easily say that the system is wrong for allowing the treasurer to stay in that long," Malone said...