"We are alarmed by the Central Library Plan, which seems to us to be a misplaced use of funds in a time of great scarcity," the letter says.
Major literary names including Salman Rushdie, Art Spiegelman and Mario Vargas Llosa are protesting the planned $300m restructuring of the iconic Fifth Avenue branch of the New York Public Library, saying it is "a misplaced use of funds in a time of great scarcity".
While some of my anecdotes may sound similar to tropes in a feel-good story, overall this is a story of misplaced priorities, misappropriated funds and a broken system.
That's what makes the debate about college funding so misplaced.
Insufficent funding and misplaced priorities mean services are being sidelined in the dash to meet performance targets.
Then, alarmingly, Halifax told you your funds had been misplaced and that the Post Office's "administration errors" meant they were unaccounted for.
This would, ironically, be a perfect opportunity for hedge funds to come to the rescue with a dose of contrarian speculation sorry, arbitrage if only they were not being beaten up by the very investment banks they would help out of their difficulties.That is one reason why the brouhaha about hedge funds is so misplaced.
Its biggest problem, though, may be that it has become a magnet for increased funding for haphazard, misplaced, and often simply dangerous initiatives.
The Misplaced Assumption The money pouring into stocks, especially via mutual funds, is chasing the misplaced notion that the double-digit gains of the past year will be repeated.
But this hope was misplaced, and de facto segregation and funding disparities live on.
The message dovetailed with criticism leveled by Mr. Culberson's Democratic opponent, Lizzie Fletcher, that he had failed to secure proper funding for Houston flood control, showing misplaced priorities.
