Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mercy. Everything from late trains to overloaded telephone lines is blamed on the foreigners. A Swiss housewife who returns a faulty appliance is likely to be told: "Madame, 'Made in Switzerland' no longer means it's made by Swiss." However snide, the comment is correct: 38% of Swiss industrial labor is now foreign, and it soars to 85% in the Swiss construction industry, 90% in the canning factories. Advertisements of rooms for rent often assert "Swiss only"-or, more precisely, "No Mediterraneans...
...Correcting the Boss. U.S. automakers sold 693,323 passenger cars in January, fully 21% more than the January record set last year (see chart). The statistics were so impressive-Detroit greeted them almost in disbelief-that Lee lacocca, Ford's new group vice president, had to correct a prediction made only last December by his boss. Henry Ford II. "Business is fantastic," said lacocca. "We could well be looking at a 9,000,000-car year in 1965, including 500,000 imports. It could be that Mr. Ford will look like a bear with his 8,700,000 figure...
...felt he could therefore, apply his experimental results to political justice, social welfare, and ethics. Mechanistic science was the source of whatever progress men had made, he said, "not only in physical welfare but also in the conquest of superstition and hatred, and in the formation of a correct view of life." The possible social and philosophical applications were Loeb's motivation to experimental...
...after he has been indicted by a grand jury.) To prove literacy, each applicant had to write down passages from the Constitution read to him by the registrar. The registrar was the sole judge of whether the applicant's writing was passable, and whether his test answers were correct...
...award recognizes work done in 1960, before Pound began obtaining data 10 per cent below that predicted by Einstein. Had these figures been correct, they would have cast doubt on the validity of the relativity theory. But Pound eliminated the discrepancy by refining his equipment, and confirmed the equivalency principle with increased accuracy--to within 0.0003 per cent of predictions...