Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instinct of the President and his advisers is correct to the extent that investment must be encouraged if the economy is to regain its vigor. The problem here is how to place capital in the hands of new entrepreneurs, much of whose investment will be in plant and whose dollars therefore will have the "multiplier" effect described by Keynes. (It is assumed--necessarily, through perhaps inaccurately--that such men exist, either independent of the large corporations, or within them, but anxious to be free of them...
Standing and sitting, Senator Church uses his hands to supplement but not replace words. He has a large and versatile vocabulary; his syntax is varied and correct. Church is quite conscious of the subtleties of language and in conversation he pauses often to find the proper words before proceeding. The Senator's casual and articulate conversation here dispelled many unfavorable impressions left by his meticulously rehearsed keynote speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention...
Once it realized that an error had been made, the Administration acted quickly to correct it. Dean Monro and Watson reaffirmed the policy that no undergraduate organization should practice racial discrimination in any form, even unwittingly, and the principle that a university should not stand for different things in different parts of the country...
...problem was plain-but immensely difficult to correct. Well-meaning Mayor Kennelley had announced plans for a 900-acre renewal program, but was never able to translate those plans into substantive action. It remained for Daley, using every instrument of his political power, to make the project really move. He teamed up with Julian Levi, the university's own slum-clearance leader, adopted and reinforced Levi's organized community assaults on greedy landlords and local crime. Today, the area's deterioration has been stemmed with the construction of nearly 2,000 housing units, as well as shopping...
...counting on three or four hits among them. Gerry Coffin, the co-author of such works as The Loco-Motion and Go Away, Little Girl, is 23 and a master of teen feel. "Lyrics will hurt a song," he says, "if they're too adult, too artistic, too correct. You should shy away from anything deep or too happy. When I was a teenager, I noticed that whenever I felt an affirmative attitude toward life and told the other kids, it would be corn to them. So now I avoid...