Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traders smelled a rat, they were not far wrong. The problem was traced to a squirrel that is thought to have scampered onto a power line in Connecticut while carrying a piece of aluminum foil. That caused a power failure that cut off electricity to more than 2,000 area homes and businesses -- and knocked out NASDAQ computers in Trumbull, Conn. Traders may have lost a chance to make money, but at least their problem was only temporary. The squirrel was electrocuted...
...half-century since then, feeding the world's hungry has become an accepted part of Western foreign policy, sometimes for political gain but often as an end in itself. Many people consider it morally wrong not to give food to poorer countries when the West has so much of it, especially in this year of near record U.S. farm output and a growing West European food glut. "If there is any politics in what we are doing," says Frederick Machmer, U.S. AID chief in Addis Ababa, "it is the fact that the U.S. public would be very angry...
...over" abstractions, the eye crawls its way across a Kiefer, mesmerized by detail: every square centimeter of those giant canvases is intended, somehow, to speak. What they were saying, particularly in the '70s and early '80s, was so literal that his German critics often got it quite wrong...
Even those who are not financially yoked to abusive mates are usually loath to leave. Although she had been sexually abused for months by her boyfriend, 29-year-old Nancy, now a California artists' representative, pretended that nothing was wrong. "Here I was supposed to be this strong, independent woman who subscribed to Ms. and carried around a briefcase. To admit it was to admit that I had failed as a businesswoman," she says...
...year-old girl. The parents of both children joined in suing the Pacific Bell telephone company for $10 million, charging that dial-a-porn was responsible. "The phone company and the pornographers took away from us our rights as parents to train our child in what is right and wrong," says Brian's father Ronald Thompson. "You can't police your kids 24 hours a day." Last week a judge declined to shut down the services pending a trial, but the state public-utilities commission ordered the phone company to block such calls from individual phones upon the customer...