Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate conclusion -- that the culprit is the Haitian boyfriend of her Austrian au pair girl -- will offend liberal sensibilities, especially since it turns out to be correct. Bellow has ruffled racial feathers before, notably in Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here...
Before casting his decisive veto in public, Nunn declared that Tower's "record of alcohol abuse cannot be ignored" and that he could find no evidence that the nominee had sought help to correct it. Nunn also judged some of the Texan's conduct with women to have been "indiscreet." Once again, a man's public career had been indelibly tainted by reckless personal behavior...
...took my time writing the program, and when I was reasonably sure it was correct, I headed for a terminal and started typing it into the computer. Since it had a few kinks, I fussed over it a bit, but I finally got it to work...
...even if time was running short and I was cursed with an extraordinarily unsympathetic computer room staffer, I was not yet ready to give up. I thought about the commands I had used, and realizing my error, I started to correct it. It was then that I ran into Problem Number...
...Instead he pressed ahead, matching the Democratic version in what amounted to a bidding war, betting that the damage could be repaired the same year with a second budget resolution. Now he concedes error; no comprehensive fix was made in 1981 or later. Yet Darman insists his course was correct because "it was important at the time to preserve the power of the presidency." The same imperative guides Darman today as he serves Bush under more difficult circumstances...