Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usual suspects favor Spinks. Jake LaMotta thinks Tyson "is gonna go down as one of the greatest fighters of all times, and he's gonna break all records, and he's gonna be around a long, long time, and he's gonna make over $100 million. I could be wrong, but that's my opinion." Billy Conn, the patron saint of overblown light-heavyweights, says, "I think Tyson will fix him up in a couple of rounds." Ali likes Spinks, but then Ali liked Trevor Berbick, whom Tyson knocked down three times with one punch. "I don't think Tyson...
...ground. When he dumped Yeltsin, the pro-perestroika Moscow party boss, from the Politburo earlier this year, Gorbachev was protecting one flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member regarded as the country's leading conservative, Gorbachev was guarding the other flank. "Left-wing phrasemaking is the wrong medicine," Gorbachev said during the meeting to select Moscow's conference delegation. But in the same speech he blamed "inertia and old-style methods of management through command and pressure" for failures in the economy. In other words, the fault lay with both sides, and he was a clear-eyed...
...Motors, Lamborghini and part of Maserati. He reports that his management team resisted the $1.2 billion AMC purchase, but he asserted his power of paterfamilias. Says he: "I heard everybody out, and then I overruled them." Iacocca's acquisitiveness seems somewhat at odds with his opinion of what is wrong with corporate America: merger mania, for one thing. He excoriates raiders and corporate chiefs who wage expensive takeover battles, leaving companies bloodied and indebted. He also faults political leaders for shortsighted partisanship: "All we do is finger-point." He particularly chides President Reagan, whom he describes as a "warm...
Before dealing with the core, though, scientists had to understand the intervening mantle, through which all seismic information has to pass on its way to the surface. Explains Dziewonski: "If it's a faulty lens, you're going to have a wrong image." By 1984 the Harvard group had assembled the first detailed map of the mantle ever published. Their data consisted of the patterns of earthquake-generated pressure waves that passed through the solid earth, moving faster through cooler regions of the mantle and more slowly through warmer areas...
...suppose they are wrong? On the surface, at least, the events that ripple forth from the meeting of Oscar and Lucinda strongly suggest that possibility. Carey slowly, almost imperceptibly, introduces tragedy into his narrative. For all their individual charms, his hero and heroine have a way of both exalting and destroying everything and everyone around them, including each other. And behind their individual fates lies another, equally ambiguous story, which may be either the arrival of civilization in a barbarous land or the destruction of an Edenic world by pompous, ignorant invaders. Like the best fiction, Oscar and Lucinda does...