Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court's lone all-out dissenter to the opinion, said the distinction was certainly too subtle and difficult for him. Clark added acidly: "Certainly if I had been [the judge] at the [California] trial, I would have given the [Medina] charge, not because I consider it any more correct, but simply because it had the stamp of approval of this court. Perhaps this approach is too practical. But I am sure the trial judge realizes now that practicality often pays...
...outsiders saw multimillion-dollar disaster in the Atlas' crash. Air Force missilemen, although disappointed that the ICBM failed to complete its assigned course (well under extreme range), quickly claimed a "scientific success," i.e., failure had been mechanical, did not involve basic design, hence would be relatively easy to correct. Even in the 55 seconds of Atlas' brief debut, films and complex recording devices had furnished valuable data on its characteristics in flight...
...first measure of intellectual excellence was given even before he arrived in Cambridge, a series of tests in which people asked him to manipulate verbal and mathematical symbols very rapidly, asked him to give "correct" answers to ambiguous questions, and tested his capacity for making or discovering analogies. Rumplestiltskin, it appeared, could do all of these things about 1/16 as fast as the University's electronic calculator, and so he was immediately admitted to the University as a distinguished student...
When even a little thought is asked, or where more than one answer is correct, then the inaccuracies that characterize grading here explode the system. Even teachers and administrators here doubt how well grades measure, and some begin to question just what they do measure...
...Idaho Power what amounts to an interest-free loan for five years, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton testified. He said that he had been against the write-off from the start, that Idaho Power did not need the tax break. While Seaton conceded that Gray's action was legally correct, "I reiterate that I did recommend against issuance of the certificates and would do so again...