Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vision of the race was correct. But Southside was more than a race...
...recent breakthroughs in remote sensing came from satellites launched in the late 1970s. NASA's Seasat 1, Tiros N and Nimbus 7 satellites took indirect measurements of ocean conditions, such as surface wind speed and direction, by gathering data on radiation scattered by waves. At first, scientists had to correct their data for errors introduced by everything from sunspot activity to changes in the ozone levels of the upper atmosphere. "It wasn't just getting bigger computers, better instruments, better physics or better computer languages," says Robert Evans, a physicist at the University of Miami's Remote Sensing Laboratory...
University officials claim the landscaping was not done properly and say they are working with the contractor to correct the problem. The disagreement "has to do with the way the soil retains moisture," said Micheal E. Williams, the director of the office of physical operations for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Williams said that mistakes were bound to happen when "complex" work--like landscaping the football field-sized commons--is done at an accelerated pace. He added that the University was trying to correct the problem but did not want to act too hastily...
Whether or not Goodwin's amateur psychiatry is clinically correct, he has dared probe a dim corner of Washington history, a suppressed repository of whispered stories and yellowing memos written in shocked disbelief, describing Johnson's stalking the back corridors of the White House and fulminating about the enemies he saw surrounding him. Nor is such speculation confined to Johnson. In the final throes of Watergate, the tortured Richard Nixon could not focus on meetings, wandered the White House halls at night and sank to his knees in prayer with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, behavior that suggested to some...