Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordering billions of dollars' worth of needless tests. Patients are willing accomplices, ever ready to put their faith in what appears to be scientific evidence, despite estimates that 20% of all tests performed are unnecessary. Worse, owing to sloppy laboratory work or doctors' mistakes, the results are too often wrong or misinterpreted; thus they may actually harm patients by failing to detect serious diseases or by indicating illness when none exists...
...observing the exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing for years, a good-bad movie. It will shock some of the innocent, titillate others and amuse the sophisticated, who will not be wrong if they detect a certain gleam -- probably wicked, possibly cynical -- in the director...
...certainly has seen too much of the bright lights in the big city when we first encounter him. It's six a.m. on a work day, and Jamie is still lingering in a stupor at the Palladium, staring at a skinheaded female bartender who's asking him what's wrong. "You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning," an overvoice tells us, quoting the first line of McInerney's second-person account...
...tell that to George. He wanted to disrupt the team like a kid who wasn't chosen to play in a pickup stickball game. He said that Winfield was wrong in publishing The Book. He said that it would hurt the Yankees. He said that Winfield had to be traded...
After 30 minutes of play, the Crimson found itself behind 4-1. Wondering what was going wrong, and feeling a little frustrated, the Harvard players tried to regroup during the intermission...