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Everyone has a pet peeve, be it a misused word, an unusual pronunciation, or what have you.
Rejecting the political neutrality of the Red Cross, the group is often outspoken about the injustices its members see; the organization was expelled from Ethiopia in 1985, and withdrew from Rwanda in 1994 because aid was being misused.
In his WP column, Michael Kelly doles out some important context to the recent news that an international aid effort has produced $3 billion in pledges of aid for the Palestinian Authority: the London Sunday Times recently reported that the PA once diverted $20 million earmarked for low-cost housing to luxury flats for Yasser Arafat's elite instead, and moreover, that the PA's own auditors found last year that nearly 40 percent of the annual budget of $323 million was wasted, looted or misused.
[Deceptively] is frequently misused.
Her children's personal lives are deliberately excised from the book; the cowardly episode in which she and Ben Bradlee misused their inordinate power to scuttle a wretchedly flawed book about her ( Katharine the Great by Deborah Davis, published in 1979) is not mentioned; and she only hints at her post-Phil romantic life.