Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list, however, could not mask the fact that progress in the crucial area of consumer goods has been disappointing; shortages persist not only in autos, refrigerators and small appliances, but also in even such items as table crockery and knives and forks. Soviet planners have also been unable to correct chronic shortfalls in such basic industrial items as steel, coal, fertilizers, cement, paper and electric power...
...cent figure is based on 1960 Census figures. Even assuming the correctness of the formula (i.e., that the proportion to be applied to Harvard's construction force is the percentage of nonwhite population living in Boston and Cambridge) it is not a matter of esoteric knowledge that in the last nine years Boston has been losing white population at an extremely rapid rate while the nonwhite population has been rising. Is it honest then to use 1960 figures? Do they respond that no more recent data are available? Two phone calls this afternoon, to ABCD and the Cambridge Community Development...
Last week Los Angeles police announced that they had solved the five murders and three others as well. If they are correct, the alleged murderers were even stranger and more bizarre than their crimes. The police case was based on the tale of an accused murderer, Susan Denise Atkins, 21. She sketched out a weird story of a mystical, semi-religious hippie drug-and-murder cult led by a bearded, demonic Mahdi able to dispatch his zombie-like followers, mostly girls wearing hunting knives, to commit at least eight murders and, police say, possibly four others...
...goods. It is also because Nader's ideas have won acceptance in some surprising places. Last week, for example, Henry Ford II went farther than any other automobile executive ever has in acknowledging the industry's responsibility for polluting the air and asked?indeed, prodded?the Government to help correct the situation. The auto companies must develop, said Ford, "a virtually emission-free" car, and soon. Ford did not mention Ralph Nader, but it was not really necessary. Nader is widely known as a strong critic of the auto industry for, among other things, its pollution of the atmosphere...
...honest," she informed me. That much she could have perceived from my telling her mother the correct fee. She spoke with a slight accent, as had her mother...