Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British colleague Martin Fleischmann to instant fame only a few weeks earlier. Pons and Fleischmann claim to have produced controlled nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature. If Pons, a professor at the University of Utah, and Fleischmann, of the University of Southampton in England, are correct, and if the process can be harnessed economically on a large scale, the world's energy problems are over...
...Advertising Managers of The Crimson, we must say that it would be an extremely bad business practice to pick and choose our advertisers to ensure that they are "politically correct." If this were The Crimson's policy, most advertisers would not want to risk becoming entangled in the internal politics of The Crimson by submitting an ad; they would simply take their business elsewhere...
Ideologically correct couples have ways of working things out. When Skye Kerr married Deane Rynerson, they manufactured a new name: Rykerson. Some couples give the father's surname to daughters and the mother's surname to sons. For their firstborn, Pierce Barker and Carol Frost of Friendship, Md., did not bother with family at all, nor were they intimidated by the perils of hyphenating. They gave the child the surname Roth-Tubman, after the author Philip Roth and the 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Similarly, in Newton, Mass., Harry Finkelstein and Jamie Kelem junked their surnames and became the Keshets...
...point, Mr. Yoo is quite correct. The university is hoping to instill the habit of giving in all of us. Because government grants, tuition and the endowment do not cover fully the costs incurred by the FAS, philanthropy must cover roughly 20 percent...
...just giving Harvard money anyway (or Phillips Brooks House, if Harvard doesn't divest by 2003). But I suppose E4D acts as a slave for those rich limousine liberals who want to give some of their millions to Harvard, without offending their sensitive, trendy, politically-correct activist consciences...