Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chuckling as the lights came up in his home screening room, Dewitt felt satisfied that at last his son had learned his lesson about right and wrong--and also about film comedy. But would he appear too lenient in the child's eyes if he let him off the hook now? Dewitt wasn't sure, but he knew one thing: he sure was in the mood for another movie...
...COST of a college education is approaching $20,000 a year. What is right about giving someone $80,000 in scholarships and wrong about giving him half that amount in cash? Add simple jobs like turning on and off stadium lights at $9 an hour and the equation is even more unbalanced...
When it comes to knotty tax questions, Internal Revenue Service employees are just as confused as everyone else -- maybe more so. General Accounting Office investigators recently posed as befuddled taxpayers calling for help on the IRS's toll-free tax-question line. They got wrong answers 22% of the time and incomplete advice on 15% of their other queries. Last year GAO sleuths were misled only 17% of the time...
...small number of predicaments. There is the pain and bewilderment felt by young girls who have lost their fathers, either through death or abandonment. One such victim remembers being forced to attend birthday parties and dreading them "as I did the day of judgment (real to me; the wrong verdict might mean that I would never see my father)." Other stories rehearse the misgivings of women who have fallen in love with previously married men. They wonder what the departed wives found objectionable, impossible to live with. Louisa is passionately devoted to Henry, but "it troubled her that she could...
...issue that the Supreme Court will decide is a narrow one, whether to grant him a stay in order to consider his third petition to that court. But controversy has crystallized around the larger question -- as much ethical as legal -- of whether the U.S. is wrong to use Soviet-supplied evidence in its pursuit of Linnas and other accused Nazi war criminals. The honorable sheriff in the westerns, after all, protected even the most despicable criminal from the savage mob. In short, in its zeal to see a Nazi atrocity punished, is the U.S. guilty of trimming its standards...