Word: correct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have been just as correct to attribute the causes of malaria and yellow fever to "noxious jungle vapors and immoral living" as to "bacteria-carrying mosquitoes." In fact, malaria is caused by protozoa-carrying mosquitoes, and yellow fever by virus-carrying mosquitoes...
...book is getting attention, nonetheless, because Lasky is correct in some of his major contentions. However, it is deplored by many students of the presidency because it gives major emphasis to minor episodes of wrongdoing, repeats unproved charges without offering fresh evidence and, in the end, lets Nixon almost totally off the hook...
...drilling rigs directly employing perhaps as many as 3,600 engineers, roughnecks and other workers, it may begin to look a bit like it. Even if the most optimistic guesstimates of the area's reserves (1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9.4 trillion cu. ft. of gas) are correct, exploiting these deposits would enable the U.S. to cut its oil imports by 4% at most. It will take three to six years before commercial pumping can begin...
Abortion funding Assuming the Supreme Court's 1973 decision on abortion was correct, the recent decision allowing cutoff of public funding is simply wrong. The state may consistently pay for an appendectomy while denying funds for cosmetic surgery, because that distinction does not involve any controversial moral views. But the supposed difference between an appendix removal and an abortion does depend on a moral position. The state has no business enforcing a moral judgment on a minority...
...ethical problems-but how about the case in which a banker, like Lance, asks a bigger bank of which his own bank is a correspondent for a personal loan? Lance would be quite correct in saying that it is nonetheless common practice. A startling 93% of bankers replying to a 1976 survey by the American Bankers Association said that they routinely offer personal loans to the officers of correspondent banks...