Word: correct
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...billion light-years away. And because the quasar-like object was imbedded in the galaxy, it was presumably the same great distance from the earth. Furthermore, the galaxy's brightness was consistent with that distance. Miller's conclusion: if the red shift was indeed a correct yardstick for an object that so closely resembled a quasar, it probably was accurate as well for quasars themselves, including those that seem to be at the very "edge" of the observable universe...
...countries. Two months ago, the Carter Administration decided that the time had come. The Communist regime of Party Chief János Kádár has paid its debts, exchanged diplomatic representatives with the U.S. and slightly liberalized its authoritarian rule. "Returning the crown is the correct thing to do," says a State Department official, adding: "It belongs to the Hungarian people and it should be with them." To emphasize the importance that the U.S. attaches to the gesture, Secretary of State Vance is scheduled to lead the U.S. delegation at this week's ceremonial return...
...November 28 of last year the Massachusetts Supreme Court concluded that a lower court was correct in ruling that Joseph Saikewicz, a 67-year-old, mentally-retarded man afflicted with leukemia, could not be denied chemotherapy...
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION advocates rightly claim that such preferential treatment is needed to help correct long years of discrimination, abuse and neglect, to help black kids compete on even terms with the white majority. But these minority students are not taking places away only from long-established, well-off white groups--they're also taking them away from the people just above them on the societal ladder, people who have only recently "made it" and are still struggling to move up in society. These groups--Italians, Jews, Germans, Irish, others--have not tyrannized blacks for centuries or profited from the tyranny...
...solecism sweepstakes, television maintained its undisputed lead. Those who wanted weathermen to stop misusing a word ("Hopefully it'll be a good weekend") were left hopeless. Connoisseurs of outrageous grammar once relished close encounters of the Susskind. In 1977 Howard Cosell became the new favorite. "Our surmisal is correct" was one of many errors produced by the World Series; so was an "instrumentality of destruction" (a smoke bomb). Cosell's colleagues relayed his throes: "The Chiefs went into the game overwhelming underdogs"; "The player is loaded with inexperience...