Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stumping in California, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis bragged Sunday about the liberal tradition, claiming that rival Vice-President George Bush was "dead wrong" in saying he wanted to divide the country. Bush, speaking in Philadelphia, shrugged off recent polls that showed his lead narrowing, saying he would campaign harder than ever in the final week before the Nov. 8 election...
...just gave up the wrong points at the wrong time," said Annor Ackah, the club's president, "and that's the name of the game...
Callenbach began by looking at sewage. "I come from a long line of Calvinist Dutch preachers, and I knew that throwing all of this valuable organic material down the drain was just plain wrong." What he created for Ecotopia was the "stable-state system" -- recycling food wastes and sewage into fertilizer to grow more food. "Then I thought, any group of people sensible enough to get their act together in this way would clearly do a lot of other things differently. So I began to think of things like extruded- plastic houses and wood architecture. And I moved on gradually...
...understand what's wrong with profiting. It's a lot better than losing. That's what the system is all about. Presumably, if we're not performing a service, people...
First there was Humphrey, the desultory humpback whale saved from starvation in California's Sacramento River in 1985 by an armada of whale lovers who successfully herded him out to sea. Last summer there was Henry, a young whale who made a wrong turn and ended up in New York's polluted harbor before regaining his bearings. Then last week the sight of three battered and bloodied gray whales gasping for breath at holes in a thickening Arctic ice pack caused Americans to forget, for a moment or two, both the World Series and the Bush-Dukakis race...