Word: wrongheadedness
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With the proliferation of postwar suburbs, which sucked millions of families out of the cities, downtowns quickly lost their old pizazz. Then the redevelopment binge of the '50s and '60s came disastrously close to indulging the American antiurban instinct to the point of no return. Political pressure to build new...
The prospect of the country's second largest conglomerate's shutting down indefinitely stirred Seoul into direct action. Hyundai produces the Excel, a subcompact popular in the U.S. and one of the most potent symbols of South Korea's economic coming of age. Though Chung denies that he caved in...
While such arguments are attractive, the conclusion they lead to is not in this country's best interests. They are based on a number of wrongheaded assumptions. First, in a world of nuclear weapons, a country's economy and natural resources are not commensurate with her military power. A country...
If this prediction proves correct, nobody will be quicker to sound the alarm than Congress. Both Houses passed legislation earlier this year to "codify" the fairness doctrine, but President Reagan vetoed it as "antagonistic to the freedom of expression." Congressional backers of the doctrine are preparing to try again, and...
But the bargain struck in the Baby M. case seems to have been wrongheaded from the start because it involved a set of emotions, mainly on the part of Whitehead but Stern's as well, that were either unanticipated or uncomprehended.