Word: correctible
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with the hope that "the struggles still to come are fewer than those left behind." I believe that the vast majority of people realistically fear that mankind has a tremendous amount of killing and savagery ahead of us before we truly civilize ourselves. But let's hope you are correct...
...front of me--the middle manager in the middle seat babbling into his BlackBerry. I'm happy that he just sold a gross of ball bearings in Shreveport, La., but the plane has landed, and I can hardly hear the flight attendant announce, "Welcome to San Francisco, where the correct local time...
Note to airlines: correct local time is the only time I require. How often do you stop someone on the street and ask for the incorrect time in some distant city...
...Shambaugh is Mary Poppins, then Klein is Scrooge. Examining the same evidence of inequities against women, as well as against minorities and gays, Klein's politically correct treatise comes to a diametrically opposite conclusion. Her data essentially find a malign plot by those in power. For many in those oppressed groups, she maintains, work "is a constantly dripping pipe of daily indignities that cumulatively lead to feelings of isolation and distrust--and ultimately to extraordinarily high rates of voluntary turnover." It's hard not to conclude that the truth falls somewhere between the poles these two books represent...
...friends? Boyle: “I think it probably has something to do with Ec 10, a class I’ve never taken.” Owings: “Because she has to have some way to afford her dream car.” The correct answers: 1. Paramaribo 2. Lake Baikal 3. Appoggiatura 4. Pig 5./6. How the heck should we know...