Word: wrongfully
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Simple as it is, the arithmetic is also dead wrong. When the epidemic first got under way, there were few cases of AIDS and the virus was spreading among a largely uninfected gay population; thus the ratio of carriers to cases was high, explains James Curran, director of the AIDS program at the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Today, thanks to a widespread education campaign and safer sex, the rate of new infection among gays has dropped dramatically. But naturally the number of infected people who fall ill continues to rise. As a result, among gays...
...their defense, the Crisis trio argue that it is up to the medical community to prove them wrong. As a practical matter, however, scientists cannot prove that something will never happen. Even so, in a dozen studies conducted on some 500 people living with AIDS-infected relatives, not a single case of casual transmission has occurred, even though they shared toothbrushes, toilets, cups, plates, toys and bed linens. "They've created a straw man," says CDC's Curran. "Let them prove that it is true...
...prolong the contest by propping up a fellow Midwesterner. Another thin reed: the possibility that indictments flowing from the Iran-contra probe would somehow slow Bush. Dole was all the more frustrated by his conviction, shared by more disinterested pols, that Bush was winning the nomination for the wrong reasons, that beneath the new veneer of strength old weaknesses festered, waiting to undermine Republican prospects in the fall. Nonetheless, Bush had finally achieved real political momentum, more substantial than his preppie and premature pronouncement in 1980 that his campaign had the "Big Mo," shortly before Reagan rolled over...
...Maybe one pilot stayed too long over the target, jamming the next man. Somebody probably flew too low, or too high. "The R.O.E. ((rules of engagement)) in a debriefing is no rank," says Cowboy Dulaney. "A lieutenant can tell a colonel what he did wrong -- with a little tact...
...that America should and does applaud, making any moments of dissatisfaction exceptions that prove the rule. Half a world away lives a remarkable civilization born of a moral issue, suffused with moral questions, most of whose people know perfectly well when their government is right and when it is wrong. The present government in Israel has been wrong, America is telling it so, and the truth may set both free...