Word: correct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposed the missions as relics of the colonial past. On the other hand, government troops threatened to kill Hackett for harboring rebels. The suspicions were correct. Black guerrillas appeared almost nightly at Hackett's mission hospital in Makumbi, and, he says, "we never turned anyone away who needed help." One guerrilla was saved when hospital workers disguised him as a pregnant woman. Unlike many of their Latin American colleagues, foreign missionaries in Africa today generally steer clear of politics. The reason: even vague criticism of sensitive black regimes can result in deportation within 24 hours...
What has been said about my mother however, is not correct; she did the best she could when she was running the company, particularly since she was surrounded by incompetence and greed...
...financial and economic crisis that Mexico is living through is truly grave. This comes about because we have structural imbalances in our economy that we must correct. There is a critical lack of internal savings, also an imbalance in our balance of payments. Another structural imbalance is the lack of efficiency of large sectors of the Mexican productive system. This is all reflected in our society in a very serious social inequality...
...think there has been a serious imbalance in public financing. This is an imbalance that we must correct...
...messages, and the body functions normally. But if damaged, they produce garbled instructions and hence disease. In so-called genetic surgery, doctors hope eventually to use recombinant-DNA techniques to cut out "bad"genes and substitute "good" ones. Now, though, there may be a more immediately applicable way to correct genetic defects. In the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers described an alternative method of genetic manipulation that for the first time has been successfully used to treat a serious disease. The solution: employing a drug to reactivate apparently intact genes that had been dormant since birth...