Word: correct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gravity and motion. Far more often, the eye sees chaos and the hand seeks to regulate it. The manner of regulation, says Gombrich, exhibits itself in decorative art. From the most elaborate Gothic structures to the smallest Christmas trees, individuals constantly attempt to fill in blank spaces and correct eccentricities. Some of the book's conclusions are debatable: "There are no laws imposing the same aim on any artist working at a given time ..." The Renaissance of Christian art would seem to refute that thesis; the poverty and angularity of urban environments surely have their influence on children...
...Today show mumbled slyly about a "three-letter part of the anatomy that's somewhere near the bottom." CBS's Roger Mudd alluded to Carter's remark without quoting it directly, but a copy of the New York Post's anatomically correct front-page headline was projected on a screen behind...
...tires had been the major cause or the chief contributing factor in a large number of accidents. To date those accidents have involved at least 41 deaths, about 60 injuries and hundreds of incidents of property damage. Over the six-year period the company tried, unsuccessfully, to correct the faults. The primary and recurring problem: blowouts and other failures following a separation of the tread from the steel-belted inner layer...
...Jonathan Beaty, who studied hundreds of Firestone documents: "Internal Firestone corporate records turned over to the NHTSA last year show that top Firestone managers-including President Mario A. Di Federico, who has just announced his resignation-were deeply enmeshed in the several years' effort to deal with and correct the failure problems of the 500 and were, from the beginning, aware of the tire's flaws. The documents show that while Di Federico and virtually all other top executives at one time or another were receiving detailed reports about tire failure from their own production people and major...
Approximately 3500 students are expected to register for the Harvard Summer School by the time registration ends tonight, Marshall R. Pihl '55, associate director of the Summer School, said yesterday. If this estimate proves correct, enrollment will be up about 25 per cent from last summer...