Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international fund raising for the contras, a campaign that included his staging slide shows for would-be donors. Other officials cadged money from foreign millionaires like the Sultan of Brunei (with characteristic adroitness, the fund raisers temporarily lost the Sultan's $10 million donation, which turned up in the wrong Swiss bank account...
...himself for national leadership. While still in charge of farming, he gathered Soviet academic experts for a series of seminars held sometimes in the Central Committee offices, sometimes in a dacha outside Moscow. The sessions started with problems of agriculture but quickly developed into freewheeling discussions of what was wrong with the economy in general and how it might be fixed. Among the participants were Economist Abel Aganbegyan, who had been urging decentralization and a wider role for market incentives since the mid-1960s, and Tatyana Zaslavskaya, a leading sociologist. Zaslavskaya recalls one encounter with Gorbachev: "I sat next...
...noticed that audiences rarely raised questions about his personal life. When they did, his pleas for a certain privacy usually set off loud applause. "People are not mean," he said in a grateful tone. "There's a goodness out there." The hostile questions came from journalists. "There's something wrong," he said, "when journalists ask one set of questions, and the public another...
Something was wrong. Other skitcom graduates, like Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy, had profitably accommodated their TV personalities to the big screen. But Robin Williams was not allowing himself to be Robin Williams. It made for a dispiriting spectacle, like watching a great juggler hold, just hold, a lemon. Williams traces his yen for straight roles to Manhattan's Juilliard School, where he studied acting. 'I had my Juilliard training -- ((highbrow accent:)) 'I'm an actor here' -- and then I do comedy on the side. It's this Jekyll-and-Jessel thing -- ((stentorian voice:)) 'Actor during the day; at night...
According to church teaching, heterosexual use of condoms is wrong because it is unnatural to interfere with the act that transmits life. Though this is not the issue with homosexuals, the church does not want to appear to be condoning homosexual acts. Proponents of the new AIDS policy argue that providing information about condoms may be justified and even in keeping with moral theology in order to prevent the greater evil of spreading the lethal AIDS virus. Critics argue that it will encourage many, particularly teenagers, to believe the bishops are advising "If you can't be good, be careful...