Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article "B-School Profs Say Harvard's Case in Sex Discrimination Waning" by Teresa A. Mullin inaccurately reports our conversation. The article's quoting my assessment that the University is unlikely to win the case is wrong. I feel that the University is not certain of a victory because life is uncertain. I have repeatedly stated that the Business School is not a discriminatory, sexist environment, and Barbara Jackson was, on balance, treated like any other candidate in the tenure process. Professor of Business Administration
Schlesinger is right that "nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy hold NATO together" but wrong to accuse Dukakis of failing to understand that truth. Part of what deters conventional war in Europe is the possibility that such a conflict would escalate to general nuclear war. That is why our allies were so concerned when President Reagan, during his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, was willing to abolish nuclear weapons and thus abandon nuclear deterrence altogether...
Somehow it seemed wrong to Ralph Flowers to kill all those black bears. Sure, part of his job at the Washington Forest Protection Association was to stop the animals from stripping bark from trees and feeding on the sapwood. Then it occurred to him that the way to a bear's heart was not through the barrel of a gun but through its stomach. So he concocted a recipe of sugar- beet pulp and set out feed troughs in the forests. Immediately the bears began to spare the trees and fill their bellies with Flowers' feast...
...wrong words bring out the Wright stuff. Scandal-tarred House Speaker Jim Wright desperately wanted to make a speech in prime time. Democratic Party strategists, preferring that the oleaginous convention chairman be an invisible man, reluctantly agreed to relative darkness: ten minutes of non- prime-time oratory...
Another factor may have been a growing dissatisfaction on the part of some Iranian officials with their country's isolation from the rest of the world. "One of the wrong things we did in the revolutionary atmosphere was constantly to make enemies," Speaker Rafsanjani recently admitted. "We pushed those who could have been neutral into hostility." Tehran has begun trying to re-establish some of its old ties. In June, after intervening on behalf of three French hostages being held in Lebanon, Iran resumed normal relations with Paris, ending nearly a year's hiatus. Last week the country quietly restored...