Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beth Austin that although her husband was a member of the National Rifle Association, she thought TIME's project "could save some lives." Atlanta stringer Joyce Leviton found that some relatives "wanted to talk for long periods, as if explaining to a stranger would help whatever had gone wrong." Pursuing a picture of a gang victim in Harlem, stringer John McDonald was "repeatedly warned that I was within earshot of the perpetrators of the shooting...
...find themselves isolated. Appeals to fairness, not to mention more cynical arguments regarding the cost to society of poor women having unwanted babies, will be more likely to succeed when banning government-paid abortions is no longer virtually the only restriction available to those who think unrestricted abortion is wrong...
...year, the zloty is not considered real money, and all important transactions are done in dollars. The wait for an apartment is 20 years, an almost inconceivable reality that dominates the personal planning of most Poles. The country's underlying problem is that it invested in all the wrong industries. The state has squandered foreign loans and subsidized shipyards, steel mills and coal mines. In an age when information and high technology are the driving force of economic growth, Poland is saddled with a string-and-can phone system and a work force that spends much of its time moonlighting...
Husbands are a favorite topic. A fiftyish front-row regular complains that her husband does the grocery shopping (the most hated activity) every Saturday morning but says that he buys all the wrong stuff. She has to go back to the market all week long. The women agree: husbands don't know how to shop...
Under normal circumstances, investigators might have stopped there and at least re-examined Bracy's confession. When they did so later, they discovered that Bracy was wrong about how some alarms worked. In the spring of 1987, however, investigators were convinced that Bracy's confession was authentic. They saw the Moscow case much the way a detective might see a locked-room mystery in which the only occupant of a sealed chamber has been murdered. "We assumed it had happened," recalls one leader of the embassy investigation. "So there must have been...