Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gore raised the injustice with IRS Acting Commissioner Michael J. Murphy, who agreed that the policy was wrong. Henceforth, he ruled, overly generous taxpayers will get refunds. The problem arises mainly for workers who retire or quit and get lump-sum pension payments but forget to claim a credit for the taxes that were withheld. Taxpayers who detect such an error as far back as 1985 can apply for repayment. The Government will even pony up interest on its unfair use of the citizens' money...
Each year, says Carmichael, he has a couple of players who are unable to read their exams or write intelligible answers. For them, he must read the exam aloud and accept oral responses. "There's something wrong with the fact that they arrive here functionally illiterate," steams Carmichael. "It means they were probably treated as a piece of meat somewhere else. What are their chances? Probably 1 in 50. It isn't fair to anybody...
Four years later, Brian left Tulsa without a degree. Today he thinks he understands what went wrong. From his first day on campus, every decision was made for him by the coaches. His summer job was arranged by the athletic department. He says that a few times during his first two years when he was low on money for the weekend, he went to one of the coaches and got $20. "It was something you were taught from the older guys -- 'If you needed money, go ask.' " Even Brian's courses were selected...
...Arafat produced results, would you admit you were wrong...
...children come into downtown alone." Clay Center citizens care about one another, and about outsiders too. The 55-member Rotary Club has raised $30,000 in three years to help administer polio vaccinations around the world. In short, this should be an idyllic place to live. Yet something is wrong here. Clay Center (pop. 4,700) has lost hundreds of jobs in the past decade, which has prompted an exodus of its young people. In all of Clay County, for which the town serves as county seat, the number of deaths (1,000) since 1980 has substantially outnumbered births...