Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hindsight has proven us wrong," said one of the naysayers, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, as if the nation were punishing itself today simply for guessing wrong long ago. Bad guesses are not moral failings, but the sweeping suspension of rights for one racial group certainly is. People were interned if they were only one-eighth Japanese by blood. There were no camps for German Americans, despite real support for Germany and Hitler in the German-American Bund. And no camps were set up for Japanese Americans in Hawaii, where there were plenty of ethnic Japanese but no strong tradition...
...wrong is obvious, the ways to right it are not. Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming, among others, strongly objected to the $20,000 payments: "Honor doesn't come with a dollar sign on it, and you don't buy it back." The objection is disingenuous, since Wallop thinks there is nothing to apologize for. It is also wrongheaded. Under the American system of tort law, wrongful harm is routinely acknowledged with cash payments. But to those interned, the formal apology and the removal of the stigma of disloyalty may count for far more than the cash. The country is also...
...businesses ranging from steel to computers can rebound from sharp slumps, what is wrong with the thrift industry? Instead of hitting bottom and starting back up, an estimated one-third of the 3,200 federally insured thrifts in the U.S. just keep falling deeper into the red. The problem is potentially grave, because the ballooning cost of rescuing the ailing thrifts could strain the Federal Government's insurance fund. Last week officials at the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, which guarantees deposits up to $100,000 and handles troubled thrifts, estimated that the deficit in its fund reached...
...show is quite the truth-telling breakthrough it is meant to be. L.A. Law may be high Bochcovian drama, but it is still TV drama. The courtroom scenes are full of implausible outbursts and Perry Masonesque confrontations. Complex legal issues are simplified into neat black-and-white choices. The wrong side is usually represented by an oily attorney who badgers witnesses ruthlessly. The right side is usually represented by, well, our guys...
...acceptable. Even among those who consider alcoholism a disease, they argued, "the consumption of alcohol is not regarded as wholly involuntary." Though the decision is not expected to affect medical-insurance benefits or hospital treatment of alcoholism, medical experts and alcoholics' groups were dismayed. "I think the decision is wrong," said Kirk Johnson of the American Medical Association. "To say that primary alcoholism is equivalent to willful misconduct is an anachronism...