Word: wrongfulness
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...Prime Minister, of course, turned out to be disastrously wrong. By 2003, Iraq was already a ruined nation, long incapable of sustaining a sophisticated WMD program. And the Middle East turned out to be very different from the Balkans and West Africa. In a region where religious loyalties and fissures shape societies and where the armies of "the West" summon ancient rivalries and bitter memories, it was naive to expect that an occupation would quickly change a society's nature. "When we removed the Taliban and Saddam Hussein," Blair told Congress in 2003, "this was not imperialism. For these oppressed...
...were technical in nature, but some revealed how raw emotions are at the company. "How long will it take before everything is known?" asked one. "How long will it take before Siemens' reputation is restored?" asked another. During his wanderings, Hershman has been learning a lot about what went wrong at Siemens. The Munich meeting, for example, was the first time these key execs had ever met to discuss compliance. "I don't see any evidence to suggest that there was a top-down policy at Siemens to get business any way you can," says Hershman. "But there...
...pollsters' favorite questions is this: Do you think the country is on the right track, or do you think it's going in the wrong direction? As you would expect, when the right-track number is pretty high or rising, incumbents do well (Ronald Reagan in 1984, Bill Clinton in 1996), or the incumbent's party does well (George H.W. Bush in 1988). When the wrong-track number goes up, the party in power gets ousted. The public wants change and gets it by defeating the incumbent--Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush...
Right now, the wrong-track number is off the charts. Most polls have two-thirds or more of Americans saying the country is going in the wrong direction, with only about a quarter of the nation believing we're on the right track. Add Bush's 60%-plus disapproval rating, and Democrats think they're sitting pretty...
...sure the football program doesn’t miss me much, but Murphy concedes that there’s something else wrong with texting besides the fact that it’s terribly intrusive...