Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article starts with the completely wrong premise that all Germans have an intense desire to reunify and regain the strength Germany had in the past. I, for one, surely don't, and public opinion polls also show that the majority of West Germans are opposed to reunification. East Germans are also more concerned with changes within East Germany, including the right to free travel, than with reunification. The reunification debate is not a matter of discussion in the Germanies. The debate is largely held abroad. Therefore, the analogy comparing the appeasement policy in the 1930s to today's situation completely...
...rulers of the East bloc, opening the floodgates of reform even partway seems certain to result in more than just a cleansing catharsis. If they had expected only to buy time to save their slipping grasp on power, they may soon be proved wrong. Each change begets some other unpredictable change, and as leaders in Poland, Hungary and East Germany have already discovered, suddenly brings on a whole new order. The tide is simply too irresistible...
Most cold-blooded was the brutal slaying of six Jesuit priests, which seemed to symbolize all that is wrong in El Salvador. While no one has claimed responsibility, immediate suspicion centered on the country's resurgent right- wing death squads. In the predominantly Roman Catholic country, angry accusations and outrage over the barbaric murders were certain to linger long after the battle had died. And for the U.S., they raised once again the moral dilemma of aiding a country where such acts have repeatedly gone unpunished...
...very high ones. In the past, auction houses sold mainly to dealers, who put on their markup and then sold to their clients. People were shy of going to auctions; the whole apparatus of reserves, attributions, codes and bids seemed mysterious and scary. Scratch your nose at the wrong moment, the urban folktale went, and -- yikes! -- you've bought a Rembrandt...
...propriety of Sotheby's practices, Ainslie says, "Our procedures follow every regulation required of us. We proudly market our financial services. There is a suggestion that financing is immoral or wrong. That is an elitist view that we frankly find ridiculous...