Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that matter, the accident might have been avoided had the Coast Guard's radar been electronically linked to the harbor's vessel-traffic system so that an alarm would sound automatically if a tanker wandered out of its correct path. Such a state-of-the-art system is in operation in at least one foreign port. Says Curtis of the Oceanic Society: "This is not just a case of someone getting drunk. Because the industry did not take responsibility for state-of- the-art technology, the problem lies at its doorstep...
...issue with us. "What do you mean, directly with you?" he asked in surprise. "I wanted to know who it was that allowed you to write that way." That is our major problem. For too many of our citizens, the question is not whether what a person says is correct but whether he has the right to state the truth about a particular subject...
...Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled last week that attorneys for a Harvard professor and his wife will have to wait until the trial next month to get detailed information about anatomically correct dolls used to elicit allegations of sexual abuse from the couple's grandchildren...
...from the outside world, David, now seven months old, appears to have an immune system that is on the mend. If all goes well, David could leave his sterile prison by summer's end. Though his survival is not assured, the experiment could help researchers develop ways to correct other inherited, and congenital, disorders through the transplantation of fetal cells...
THERE are also various forms of rudeness that I have noticed in greater abundance at Harvard than elsewhere that I would like to correct. I mean, I am really sick of the way people always tend to get into endless conversations while standing in the middle of an entrance, not bothering to notice that 22 people are trying...