Word: correct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vague and difficult to pinpoint but real to most people. Some law writers say such statutes preserve the American family concept. Others suggest that they guarantee continued propagation of the species. Still others say the goal is discouragement of promiscuity, or the adherence to a philosophical-moralistic notion of "correct" conduct. Whatever the underlying social good-and the law has not articulated it well-the courts have generally divined it and upheld the laws...
Harvard will argue that if the government wants universities to correct social inequities, then it can't quibble with the means the schools use to increase the number of minority graduates...
Jimmy Carter's favorite nose counter could hardly have been more correct. Last week the simmering dispute between the President and Capitol Hill broke into the open, with congressional members of Carter's own party leading the battle. Within three days Democrat-led committees in both chambers voted to load Administration proposals with more than $3.5 billion in extra money...
...that is where their similarity ends. Cria! is a dark and melodramatic comedy, highly original in plot, about how a child misperceives her actions and their consequences in the adult world. Cousin Angelica, though more stylistically unconventional, is a rather ordinary story about an adult attempting to refine and correct the memories of childhood. Cria! is an almost entirely successful work, while the other, earlier film must be regarded as an honorable failure...
Israel's supporters, and perhaps also its Arab antagonists, have ample reason to hope that Weizman's judgment will prove correct. For if a Begin government is unwilling or unable to negotiate reasonably with those Arab leaders who seem ready to move toward peace, the fearful alternative is another era of turmoil?and perhaps bloodshed ?in the Middle East...