Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong to assume that East Germans are as disenchanted with their political system as are many of their bloc neighbors. GDR citizens aren't clamoring to trade their government subsidies, guaranteed health care and the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc for higher prices, unemployment, a declining birth rate and the impersonal chaos of capitalism in their western counterpart...
...much more of a challenge to Western entrepreneurs to be there on the ground as participants in perestroika than to stand outside and sell things to the East. What advice should be given to the intrepid? Efforts must play to Eastern Europe's limited strengths. There is nothing necessarily wrong with the region's engineering and craft skills; it's the managerial savvy that is lacking. Joint ventures sound attractive, but their history provides many caveats. Licensing agreements may be the best bet, if they don't require the import of components that have to be paid for in scarce...
Many mid-career women blame the movement for not knowing and for emphasizing the wrong issues. The ERA and lesbian rights, while noble causes, seemed to have garnered more attention than the pressing need for child care and more flexible work schedules. The bitterest complaints come from the growing ranks of women who have reached 40 and find themselves childless, having put their careers first. Is it fair that 90% of male executives 40 and under are fathers but only 35% of their female counterparts have children? "Our generation was the human sacrifice," says Elizabeth Mehren, 42, a feature writer...
Many health professionals refuse to dispense such pseudo expertise, saying if it is wrong to discuss patients about whom they know something, it cannot be right to diagnose people they have never met. Yet even hard-liners were startled last week when the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists opened an investigation of four practitioners -- a procedure that could end in revoking their right to practice -- because of interviews they gave the Boston Globe about the emotional problems of Kitty Dukakis, wife of Governor Michael Dukakis. An acknowledged recovering alcoholic and amphetamine addict, she was hospitalized Nov. 5 after drinking...
...Advisory Committee on Semiconductors and the other by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Both concluded that what American high-technology industries need is more Government leadership, not less. Said Ian Ross, president of AT&T Bell Laboratories and chairman of NACS: "Every trend you look at is in the wrong direction for the U.S." Next day the Administration reversed itself again, denying that it had any plans for technology budget cuts...