Word: correct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imposition of sanctions suggested, Washington is skeptical about whether Tokyo has the will to correct its $58.6 billion trade imbalance with the U.S. Last week U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker tried to allay Japanese concern about the yen by calling a further decline of the dollar "counterproductive." Nonetheless Baker complained that Tokyo's proposed economic reforms "are not yet government policy" and warned that "Japan still must do more...
Khoury best summed up the match during one of Brown's many frustrating points: "This happens every year." For the 52nd consecutive time, that proved correct...
...play is a jumble of shouting voices until a police inspector (Jeff Wise) shows up. Wise, in an apt parody of the know-it-all British detective, deduces an utterly fraudulent solution to the problem. When the correct answer emerges, our understanding of the play is no clearer; in Stoppard, the process, not the plot, is the point...
...fully aware of its responsibility to maintain a high level of scholarship and teaching in this area where we have excelled. Two appointments have been made at the junior faculty level, and I expect senior appointments to be made as well. Secondly, the Harvard colleague whom you quoted was correct when he told you that "The History Department...has tended to want to appoint the best minds they can find...They are less concerned about fields." That is so, broadly speaking, and it applies to the whole Department, not just to American history. I find it easy to justify...
...parking lot, they slide into their BMWs and lift cellular phones to their ears before zooming off to their architect- designed houses in the exurbs. After warmly greeting Rover (often an akita or golden retriever), they check to be sure the pooch service has delivered his nutritionally correct dog food. Then they consult the phone-answering machine, pop dinner into the microwave and finally sink into their Italian leather sofa to watch a videocassette of, say, last week's L.A. Law or Cheers on their high-definition, large-screen stereo television...