Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Policy Wrong...
What is disturbing is that the desire for billboard morality, and its clear, if mythic, delineations between right and wrong, appears as firmly in the minds of the D.A's as it does in the souls of moviegoers...
...liquid system provides more even support than conventional bedding, say enthusiasts, contouring to body shape and thus easing stress on the buttocks, shoulders, elbows, hips, calves and heels. "It's just more support in the right places without exerting pressure on the wrong places," explains Stacy James, head of advertising for Land and Sky, a Lincoln, Neb., water-bed manufacturer. Sloshy cushions, say advocates, keep the spine in proper alignment and, along with the heat, help blood circulation. Ads now tout water beds as good for the whole family, from children to the elderly...
...surveying some 3,000 married people, as well as unmarried couples, Harris issued two reassuring findings last week: only one in eight marriages ends in divorce, and fully 89% of those surveyed say their relationships with their partners are satisfying. "The prophets of doom could not be any more wrong," says Harris. "The American family is surviving...
Those assumptions might seem persuasive not only to the jurors in the Tavoulareas case -- who voted him $2.05 million in damages -- but also to many other Americans. As a matter of law, however, they are wrong. The 1982 verdict against the Post was overturned, first by the trial judge and again on appeal. Libel law is often what scholars call counterintuitive: its tenets sometimes appear to contradict common sense and even common courtesy. The clash between legal principle and public perception may explain why libel verdicts so persistently get reversed and why legal scholars and a growing number of libel...