Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANY SENATORS rightly fear that the growing budget deficit is contributing to America's trade imbalance. But they are looking at the wrong programs...
...many Senators think they can solve the twin problems of the deficit and declining American competitiveness painlessly, by shaving money from education. They are wrong. In the long run, every dollar that goes to education serves to boost productivity and thereby lays the foundation for America's future economic health. Keeping access to higher education open to all is not only a matter of equity; it is also a matter of economic efficiency...
...laughs and, more troublesome at the box office, keeps Chamberlain from maximizing his easy charm. Yet audiences who come to see him may depart delighted at having seen Page in full cry, sloshing her drinks onto people, cramming her mouth with sandwiches, then abruptly divining where her seance went wrong with a fierce delight that would surely have bewitched Coward himself...
...less. "We're seeing the McDonaldization of Main Street!" wailed the city planners. When the anti-McDonald's griping began to heat up not long ago, it even earned a name: burger bashing. All sorts of experts wanted to attack Big Mac as a symbol of all that was wrong with America's eating habits, its mass culture and its economic development. Walter Mondale, among other politicians, criticized the hamburger chain's minimum-wage jobs as grim substitutes for well-paying blue-collar work. Nutritionists despaired over the high fat and sodium content of McDonald's fare, while food snobs...
...government affect so many Americans daily, inspire such passion and profanity as those vast expanses of pavement stretching from horizon to horizon. That is why some White House aides believe Ronald Reagan was always doomed to lose last week's veto battle with the Senate. Was it the wrong war over the wrong issue at the wrong time? Wavering legislators, who once feared crossing the President, will not soon forget the day Reagan went hat in hand to the Senate needing one Republican vote and failed to get it. But it was also the highway bill that restored the fighting...