Their extensive research convinced them that the prevailing notions about women’s participation in the war—that they had to be deranged or depraved—were way off the mark.

那种流行的观念：参战的女性要么精神不正常，要么自甘堕落；通过广泛的研究，她们确信该观念大错特错。

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You would have to be either deranged or a Keynesian economist to think that eliminating the entire corporate income tax would not increase economic growth by at least 0.06 percentage points.

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And Major Hasan does appear to be in the deranged category.

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Such indiscriminate crimes are almost impossible to solve, tending to be carried out by deranged individuals.

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