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- adjective
oriented incorrectly
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The Falcon test system offers standard MDA functions such as tests for incorrect, missing or misoriented components, and opens and shorts, while a full range of In Circuit test capabilities provide comprehensive test coverage.
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As conservative ideology has lengthened its shadow across public discourse in the 1980s and 1990s, more and more people have attributed the spread of the underclass to the incorrigibility and intractability of its members, their misoriented callousness, their preoccupation with violence and immediate gratification, their moral stance—in short, to a more vicious cycle of the “culture of poverty” than we’ve known before.
FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003
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As conservative ideology has lengthened its shadow across public discourse in the 1980s and 1990s, more and more people have attributed the spread of the underclass to the incorrigibility and intractability of its members, their misoriented callousness, their preoccupation with violence and immediate gratification, their moral stance—in short, to a more vicious cycle of the “culture of poverty” than we’ve known before.
FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003
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As conservative ideology has lengthened its shadow across public discourse in the 1980s and 1990s, more and more people have attributed the spread of the underclass to the incorrigibility and intractability of its members, their misoriented callousness, their preoccupation with violence and immediate gratification, their moral stance—in short, to a more vicious cycle of the “culture of poverty” than we’ve known before.
FAT and MEAN DAVID M. GORDON 2003
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