Word: correctible
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...debate over spanking goes back many years, but the essential question often evades discussion: Does spanking actually work? In the short term, yes. You can correct immediate misbehavior with a slap or two on the rear end or hand. But what about the long-term impact? Can spanking lead to permanent, hidden scars on children years later...
...endorsement of the historical witnessing by our nation of the various events that have befell it, and as a result throughout history, the Iranian nation has learned very well that it must stand on its own feet and the imposed war, if anything, proved that their perception is quite correct. That is precisely why Iranian nation seeks its own scientific development, its own economic development, its own innovations, and its own initiates. (See video from TIME's interview with Ahmadinejad...
...happened. It's only natural to have differences of opinion. If an individual has rendered service to a country, that does not mean that people should always embrace the person. People make their own decisions. With regard to the agitations and provocations created by some western governments, that is correct, they too tried to actually portray the chaos as legal and as a positive trend. They gave it a positive spin. Specifically British officials from the government did these acts. They were involved. We are not saying that they designed and planned what transpired in the elections in Iran...
...while this feel-good democratization is politically correct, it fails in practice. Populist American optimism tends to cut the legs out from beneath potent terms like “genius”; the harsh truth is that not everyone is capable of producing works of incredible beauty or sublimity. In the Coen brothers’ 1991 movie “Barton Fink,” a studio boss dresses down his star scripter: “You think you’re the only writer who can give me that Barton Fink feeling? I got 20 writers under contract that...
...touch with them, who shared their ideology, and whom they thought they could use," says Bokhari. According to the Associated Press, a government document filed in connection with the case states that Zazi on Sept. 6 and 7, tried on multiple times to communicate with another person "seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives." "Each communication," the AP quoted the document as saying, was "more urgent than the last...