Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Disturbed admirers may also get the wrong impression when celebrities share their private lives. Some stars appear eager to confide their most personal secrets in popular magazines, and they allow cameras to roam freely in their homes -- even their bedrooms -- on shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. "There's a tremendous need for caution and restraint," says Theresa Saldana. But she and others argue that it is their profession more than their publicity that exposes stars to the public...
...only three U.S. cities -- Los Angeles, Houston and New York City -- will fail to meet federal air-quality standards by the year 2000. Critics say that the Bush plan might allow as many as six other cities to miss that deadline. EPA Administrator William Reilly insisted the charge was wrong, but his rebuttal was a bit halfhearted. "I could understand," he said, "how they could conclude that...
...department's third highest career level, Bloch is said to have been disappointed by his failure to become a full ambassador. He boasted to friends that he virtually ran the Vienna embassy under former Ambassador Helene von Damm, a Reagan appointee he regarded with scorn. Bloch got on the wrong side of Von Damm's successor, Ronald Lauder, who sent him packing. Colleagues praise Bloch's work in Washington, though some describe him as dull ("A boring little man," says one). He has been placed on leave and his security passes have been withdrawn while the investigation goes...
While the rest of the U.S. economy is still creaking forward, the recession monitor is flashing yellow in Detroit. The reckoning was postponed for months by the Big Three's inveterate optimism, which kept assembly plants cranking out cars as though nothing were wrong, and by Detroit's ever sweetening sales incentives. But by the end of the year's second quarter, evidence of a reversal was clearly at hand: during the first six months of 1989, total car sales in the U.S. fell 7.2% from last year's first half, to 5.1 million...
...dollar, the bettor will try to pick the winners in four to 14 of that week's games. One wrong guess loses the wager, but if bettors choose the winners in all the games, they can win between $8 and $5000, depending on how many games they gamble...