Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course there are some natural conditions that so many people correct, that leaving them be is an affectation, even if it shouldn't be. A woman not shaving her legs or not coloring her grey hair are both such affectations...
...deliver 49 capsules of the psychoactive drug Ecstasy, Burling was acquitted on largely lexicological grounds. The state legislature misspelled the drug's chemical name when it passed the bill that outlawed it in 1986. Thus Burling could not be convicted of possessing the substance specified by the lawmakers. The correct spelling is methylenedioxymethamphetamine, not ) methylenedioxyethamphetamine as the law had it. Next time they ban a drug in Nebraska, they'd better consult a pharmacological dictionary...
...perception that Gov. Michael S. Dukakis was a man of far greater substance than Quayle was a correct one, but not because Dukakis was educated at Swathmore and Harvard Law and Quayle attended a much less prestigious university. It was because both Dukakis and Quayle had dedicated their lives to public service, and Dukakis had significantly more accomplishments to point to in that field...
...proctors and other freshman advisers saythat neither time nor knowledge is usually aproblem. They say they do not need to be familiarwith all aspects of Harvard because their role isto guide students to the correct resources. Andmost proctors work out ways to keep in touch withtheir charges, administrators...
...course, the only thing worse than copping the sincere attitude (and in the case of U2 I don't doubt it started out sincere and was eventually co-opted by the forces of commerce) is having an attitude. Enough with Sting's image as the politically correct artiste extraordinare who can rock out with the boys, jam with Black jazz musicians, do the classical thespian thing, father a host of love children and be just the eccentric country gentleman donating his time and energy to worthy causes. I mean, aren't we bohemian? Gimme a break...